Letter: Treat rape trial women as adults

Sir: "A growing scandal of institutionalised sexual abuse [at a US Army training base] is raising basic questions about the place of women in the armed forces." (report, 11 November, my italics).

This is the classic response of a man who has just beaten his wife - "Now look what you've made me do!"

GILL JEFFORD

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire