Two U.S. Soldiers accused two different academies Friday of ignoring "rampant sexual harrassment," according to CNN.com.
Annie Kendzior and Karley Marquet filed the lawsuit in U.S. Federal Court in which they say the U.S. Military and Naval Academies failed to "prevent rapes and sexual assaults at the Naval Academy and West Point."
Marquet said one weekend in January of 2011 that an upperclassmen came into her room to talk, before persuading her to drink in his room. He then turned off the lights and raped her, according to Marquet.
Struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts, Marquet told authorties because she didn't want it to happen to anyone else.
Kendzior also had too much to drink at a nearby off-campus party in the fall 2008, in which an upperclassman offered to her a place to stay. At the residence she said she was raped, according to CNN.

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