A lieutenant colonel who ran the Air Force's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office was arrested and charged with sexual battery over the weekend in a D.C. suburb.
In a statement Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was said to have expressed "outrage and disgust" over the arrest, which comes as the Pentagon prepares to release a report Tuesday showing the number of sexual assaults in the military increased in 2012.
Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek confirmed to ABC News that Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski, chief of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, was arrested this weekend in Arlington, Va.
The Arlington County Police Department's crime report said that shortly after midnight on Sunday "a drunken male subject approached a female victim in a parking lot and grabbed her breasts and buttocks."
"The victim fought the suspect off as he attempted to touch her again and alerted police," the crime report said said. "Jeffrey Krusinski, 41, of Arlington, Va., was arrested and charged with sexual battery."
Stefanek said Krusinski was in charge of the Air Force's five-person sexual assault prevention branch. Brig. Gen. Eden Murrie, the Air Force's director of services, oversees the office.
[Krusinski] was responsible for writing plans and programs that supported victims of sexual assault," Stefanek said in a statement to ABC News. "He worked on prevention programs for sexual assault."
Air Force's Sexual Assault Prevention Officer Charged With Sexual Battery
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