Pictured is a stock image of three Royal Navy patrol ships at sea The Royal Navy has already launched a major inquiry into allegations of sexual abuse and sexism within its ranks. One high-ranking officer, who was unaware of the rape, accused of her 'bringing shame on the Navy' because she was a single female who had fallen pregnant at sea. In a harrowing account about the fallout of her sexual assault, which left her 'with bruising and cuts', she said nobody thought to ask how she had fallen pregnant at sea, given that intimate relations were banned on ship. 'It was just sort of rammed down me that you kind of put up and shut up if you want your career,' she said. She says she never reported the attack to military authorities because she feared it would impact her career and that she could be seen as a 'troublemaker' by her senior officers.
'It makes me really sad to think I went through this now - but at the time I was begging my midwife to allow me to have a Caesarean because I couldn't bear anyone to see any damage or anything that had been caused previously,' she told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.Ĭatherine - which is not her real name - admitted that nobody close to her knows about the rape and that she is now receiving counselling for it. The woman, known as Catherine, was raped while at sea and became pregnant as a result. When she eventually did give birth to her child, she 'begged' midwives to undergo a caesarean as she 'couldn't bear' the thought of medical staff seeing the 'damage' done to her genitalia during the rape. The woman, known as 'Catherine', said she was violently raped while at sea in an attack that led to her pregnancy and left her with injuries that needed medical attention.Īnd she claimed that when she approached a very senior male officer, he told her 'in no uncertain terms' that an 'appointment' could be arranged for an abortion. She was speaking out today as naval top brass continue with their urgent investigation into allegations of bullying, misogyny and sexual harassment against women within the Submarine Service. The female veteran, who was among the trailblazing cohort of women to serve alongside men at sea for the first time in the 1990s, today revealed she had been left with complex PTSD after a prolonged period of 'sexual trauma' in the military. A traumatised Royal Navy sailor who became pregnant after being raped by a male colleague while serving on a warship at sea was told by a senior male officer she should be ‘ashamed’ of herself and get an abortion.
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