Navy rape victims contact Erin Brown after she tells her story

Erin Brown has been inundated with stories from women and the families of victims since revealing she was repeatedly raped in her first 12 months in the Navy.

An ex-Navy officer who claims she was repeatedly raped while serving her country has been shocked to discover there are at least 20 more victims too afraid to come forward.

Erin Brown has been inundated with messages from women and the families of victims since revealing via The Sunday Telegraph that she had been raped three times in her first 12 months in the Navy.

Navy veteran Erin Brown. Picture: Evan Morgan

Ms Brown while she was serving in the Navy.

She was just 17 when she joined in 2001, and she claims she was sexually assaulted within a month — only to be told by a superior she reported it to that she was a “disgrace” and had herself to blame.

The superior told her “if anything else happens you will be kicked out of the Navy.

After more alleged attacks Ms Brown quit the following year.

She kept her story to herself for 16 years and had no intention of going public until Army Chief General Angus Campbell made a speech in February that shook her to the core.

He told cadets they should not fall victim to the “four As”: alcohol, out after midnight, alone and attractive.

“I’ve had a lot of people reach out to me with stories similar to mine, and many of them have said that when they tried to report their abuse they were threatened with their careers, the same as I was,” Ms Brown said.

“They have all been equally heart-wrenching and scarily similar to mine. There is a lot of pain out there whether the CDF wants to acknowledge it or not.”

After the story, General Campbell indicated he would be personally replying to Ms Brown.

To date she has not heard from him.