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Indicted soldier
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IDF soldier indicted for raping girl from his platoon

Indictment states soldier, who insists relations were consensual, was invited to lodge in a spare room at complainant's home, where he forced himself on her despite her resisting.

An IDF combat soldier was indicted in a military court in Jaffa Wednesday following allegations that he raped a female soldier who served with him in his platoon last month.

 

 

The remand for Cpl. ‘S’ was extended by two weeks despite the fact that the prosecution asked that he be kept under arrest until the conclusion of the judicial proceedings.

 

A gag order has been placed on the job of the complainant and on the brigade to which they belong.

 

The Criminal Investigation Division (CID) carried out a polygraph test last Thursday on the defendant and the complainant, the results of which formed a strong case for indicting Cpl. S. However, the suspect has consistently claimed that the relationship between the two was consensual.

 

Photo: Amit Sha'al
Photo: Amit Sha'al

 

According to the indictment, Cpl. S and his alleged victim went, together with friends, on a Thursday night to a club in Tel Aviv where he reportedly pressed himself against her and tried to kiss her against her will. The female soldier apparently told him that she was uninterested in any kind of intimate contact with him.

 

At the beginning of the night, the female soldier told her friends that there was a spare room available at her house for anyone that needed to stay there. When Cpl. S sent her a message saying that there were no more available trains to his hometown and that he had no where to stay, she invited him to sleep in her brother’s room who was not at home for the night.

 

After the two returned home together, Cpl. S entered his host’s room and tried several times to make physical contact with her, once again against her will when she told him more forthrightly that she was not interested in any physical relations, reminding him that he was invited back to her home only because he needed a place to sleep.

 

The soldier then made his way to the other room only to return once again at which point, according to the indictment, he forced himself on the girl who attempted to physically resist while he ignored her pleas to stop.

 

But while admitting that sexual relations had occurred in the home that night, the soldier rejected the claim that he had acted in any way without her consent.

 

He and his friends had drunk alcohol at the club, he said, “and afterwards she invited me back to her house. We were in her room while her parents were in the next room. I never attacked her. We had sex after numerous hints made by her the same night.”

 

Cpl. S also told one of his friends that he had no idea where the accusations had come from. “I have never been mixed up with the law and I was considered a good soldier in the platoon and never caused problems,” he said. “My world has collapsed and I sincerely hope that she will retract her complaint.”

 


פרסום ראשון: 07.12.17, 13:17
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