Navy Officer Charged with Sexual Assault

Randolph appeared for a preliminary hearing on felony charges of aggravated sexual assault, open unbecoming an officer, and creation a false authenticated statement. The woman said Randolph -- purpose of the Gunston Hall's deck department, and directly in her chain of order -- took her to an empty dining room. He asked, 'Do you appetite me to be your capital classmate or your worst enemy?'

The Virginian-Pilot is withholding her nickname due to she is an alleged basket case of sexual assault. Randolph told her she could be sent to a captain's mast -- an internal disciplinary action. Or, he said, she could owe him. She doctrine he meant he would let her actions slide provided she did some additional military instruction, or EMI -- considerate of affection extra credit.

A infrequent minutes later, Randolph asked her if she had a condom. No, she said. A infrequent minutes of silence awkward silence passed. Were you trying to obtain masculinity with me?" He told her to get-up-and-go to the ship's medical branch to purchase a condom. She did as ordered and called a colleague aboard ship to declare him what was happening. Don't moxie back, he told her.

Tendency to your bunk and we'll figure absent what to accomplish the succeeding morning. Saying she felt "blackmailed," the woman picked up two condoms from a advantage always available in the medical department, which was deserted.

After she gave the lieutenant the condoms, he told her to go next him to his stateroom. Inside, he locked the door, hugged her and -- noticing her tears -- told her he didn't wish to effect this. Then he told her to turn encompassing and pull down her pants. She held onto the back of a stool in the stateroom. He settle on a condom, and had sexuality with her.

This goes nowhere," he told her when he finished. Then, she said, he handed her the remaining condom, saying, "You might itch this later." She reported the complication the closest morning. The Naval Crook Investigative Assistance opened an inquiry, interviewed her and Randolph, and gathered evidence from his stateroom.

An professional at the Armed Criminal Query Laboratory in Georgia testified by call that DNA on the woman's underpants and jeans, as hale as an peripheral swab of her thighs and genitals, matched a morals from Randolph. A vaginal swab did not disclose the presence of bodily fluids from Randolph. DNA from another subject -- the woman's boyfriend at the generation -- did exposition up on the vaginal swab.

That man, too a sailor assigned to the Gunston Hall, said they did not cause condoms when they had sex. Greg McCormack, Randolph's civilian defence attorney, tried to toss doubts on the evidence and conformation a situation that the woman was untrustworthy. He famous that when she was 15, she filed a false accusation of rape with police in Texas, where she grew up.

Asked approximately that, the woman said she feared she was pregnant and told her parents she had been raped so they wouldn't be mad. A rare days later, the authenticity came out, and the daughter and gargantuan went back to police to withdraw the report. No charges were filed, she said. McCormack further noted the woman lied about where she'd out when supervisors realized she wasn't on the ship.

She told them she'd absent to her machine to dispose some medicine for cramps.) She lied to NCIS agents in the inceptive interview when they asked whether she had any civilian jobs, McCormack said. The sailor worked as a waitress and an exotic dancer at a Norfolk bar.) An investigating officer testament reccomend whether the condition should proceed to court-martial, be handled administratively, or be dismissed.