An Army staff sergeant has been hospitalized following numerous suicide attempts after she reported that she was sexually harassed by a senior colleague.

According to the Army and a petition filed on the presidential office website, the sergeant first class began stalking, bullying and sexually harassing the woman after she rejected a date with him last year.

She reported the situation four months later in August that year, which led to the suspect being discharged before a criminal investigation was launched.

The woman's sister claimed in the petition that she faced further harm from not being immediately separated from the suspect and from the military trying to stop her from filing a criminal complaint.

An official from the Army claimed that the woman was immediately separated from the man and that the investigation was delayed as she didn't clarify her intent to file an official complaint.

The latest incident follows the apparent suicide of an Air Force master sergeant in May and that of a Navy chief petty officer earlier this month after each of them reported a similar case of sexual violence.