DENVER -- An Air Force team investigating the alleged rapes of at least 12 female cadets at the Air Force Academy has set up a phone line for other victims.

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Lt. Col. Dewey Ford said Monday that more investigators were arriving this week to look into claims the alleged rape victims were themselves punished for reporting the assaults.

7NEWS Investigates first reported that at least five female cadets claimed they got in trouble for reporting they had been sexually assaulted. U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., told 7NEWS last Friday that 12 current and former female cadets have contacted his office to report that they were sexually assaulted at the academy and then ostracized by colleagues and reprimanded by the administration for reporting what happened.

The academy's superintendent, Lt. Gen. John Dallager, has said in written statements that there is zero tolerance for sexual assault at the school and in the Air Force.

Allard said that he will wait until the Air Force investigation is complete before asking Sen. John Warner, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, for a hearing.

The matter may turn out to be one of the largest military sex scandals since the 1991 Tailhook incident, when Navy and Marine pilots reportedly molested Navy women during a convention at a Las Vegas hotel.

"I'm under the impression that when they finish with the Air Force Academy, they'll look into the other academies too ... I'm not aware of a problem in the other academies, but if nothing else we do need to see what's happening in the other academies ... so we can do some comparison," Allard said Friday.