Breaking The Point

Greg Bruno's report: On the evening of April 8, 2000, midway through her second semester at the U.S. Military Academy, Cadet Kristina Thompson passed out drunk in a Washington, D.C.-area hotel room.

When she awoke, dizzy and disoriented, she found herself naked, a male classmate thrusting into her.

But Thompson, then 21, waited nearly a year before reporting the sexual assault. She was afraid Academy leaders would blame her for socializing with an upperclassman.

She was right to worry.