Editing My Lai massacre (section)

=== Rapes ===
{{see also|Rape during the Vietnam War}}
According to the Peers Commission Investigation, the U.S. government allocated commission for inquiry into the incident, concluded at least 20 Vietnamese women and girls were raped during the Mỹ Lai massacre. Since there had been little research over the case other than that of the Peers Commission, which solely accounts the cases with explicit rape signs like torn cloth and nudity, the actual number of rapes is not easy to estimate. According to the reports, the rape victims ranged between the ages of 10 and 45, with nine being under 18. The sexual assaults included gang rapes and sexual torture.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last1=Good |first1=Jennifer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xDlQBwAAQBAJ&dq=%E2%80%9CAN+EVERYDAY+AFFAIR%E2%80%9D+Violence+Against+Women+during+the+Vietnam+War&pg=PA132 |title=Mythologizing the Vietnam War: Visual Culture and Mediated Memory |last2=Lardinois |first2=Brigitte |last3=Lowe |first3=Paul |date=2014-10-16 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-4438-6948-5 |language=en}}</ref>

No U.S. serviceman was charged with rape. According to an eyewitness, as reported by [[Seymour Hersh]] in his book on the massacre, a woman was raped after her children were killed by the U.S. soldiers. Another Vietnamese villager also noticed soldiers rape a 13-year-old girl.<ref name=":2"/>