Alleged rapes at the Marine barracks at 8th and I, and the fallout for a Marine

A former Marine officer I know writes:

Ariana
Klay is a Naval Academy grad, the daughter of an enlisted Force Recon dude and
old friend of mine. She is the woman I mentioned last year who contacted me for
help after she was raped.

8th and I was a mess. The rape was a culmination of a
very bad command situation. She's not a perfect victim. She'd gotten back from
Iraq and landed in a bad command. She dealt with her problems by drinking.
After a night of drinking, a LCPL at 8th and I
called her a whore and she slapped him. After the rape, she downed a bottle of
sleeping pills and all the alcohol she could get her hands on and tried to kill
herself. She pulled though and contacted me after she got out of rehab. I told
her they probably wouldn't prosecute and she could expect reprisal. I was
right. They didn't file charges against her attacker until after she went to
the press…She was kicked out because of the slapping incident. I
think her
lawyer's keeping a tight rein on her press
interviews.

I felt bad about telling her to let it go and not go to the
press, but I knew that the folks at 8th and I would bury it. The whole thing is
a damn mess. The worst bit: the Capt who did it was investigated for war crimes
in Iraq. After the attack, he told her that his company motto was that
"Snitches end up in ditches."