Flight surgeon’s rape case to go to jury

[unhappycamper]

Flight surgeon’s rape case to go to jury
By Ashley Rowland, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Friday, February 1, 2008

KUNSAN AIR BASE, South Korea — A court-martial jury was scheduled to begin deliberating Thursday in the trial of a flight surgeon accused of raping a civilian employee in her dorm after she had taken the sleeping pill Ambien.

During closing arguments Wednesday night, prosecutor Capt. Ryan Hendricks said the doctor, Capt. Mark Seldes, was a "sexual predator" who knew the woman couldn’t consent to sex. Yet, Hendricks said, Seldes had sex with her so forcefully that he woke her from a deep, medically induced sleep.

"As she lay there, the perfect prey, the perfect victim, he pounced," Hendricks said.

Seldes’ civilian attorney, Brent Harvey, said the woman might have given Seldes signs that she wanted to have sex, even though she was in the middle of a blackout.

"There’s a bottom line in this case: ( The woman ) could have consented and not remembered. She could have engaged in sex and not remembered," he said.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=52086

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Oh yeah, any woman who is drugged automatically gives consent

to sex, right? Where is this attorney from? How has he ever been able to practice law without being laughed out of a courtroom?