Army Sexual Assault Lawyer’s Rough Sex and Role Playing Leads to Sexual Assault Charge
This is just another example of why these military sexual assault cases are not as black and white as the advocates want people to believe:
What started as a consensual relationship of rough sex and role playing between two Army attorneys could be headed to court-martial.
Members of the defense and prosecution teams made their closing statements Friday, on the third and final day of a preliminary hearing for Capt. Scott Hockenberry, an Army attorney and former special victims prosecutor accused of sexual assault and battery against a former girlfriend.
Hockenberry faces three counts of sexual assault and three counts of assault consummated by battery, based on accusations that he choked, slapped and held a knife to the accuser’s throat, in addition to forcing her to have sex without a condom during the summer of 2016.
The case’s fate hangs on whether Hockenberry was mistaken about the nature of the incidents, in the context of a relationship in which both accuser and accused agree that acts like slapping and hair-pulling were fair game.
The prosecution presented the accuser, who declined to testify at the hearing, as an educated, professional woman who — despite her knowledge of self-defense techniques — froze up when she felt threatened by a man she was intimate with.
“She doesn’t hide the fact that she’s done things she’s not proud of,” special victim prosecutor Lt. Col. Carol Brewer said. “She doesn’t deny that she should have known better.”
The defense pushed back with multiple letters and testimonies from Hockenberry’s friends and former lovers, who described him as a top-notch officer, as well as kind and considerate of the women he had been intimate with. [Army Times]
Here is what Hockenberry did in one instance of rough sex:
Where Hockenberry crossed the line, Brewer said, was in holding a knife to the alleged victim’s neck and forcing her to have sex without a condom, despite condom usage being an explicit rule of their relationship.
This is what Hockenberry claims his accuser is really upset about:
Helixon pushed back, alleging that the alleged victim is out for revenge.
“It’s at that time that she discovered the breadth and depth of the other individuals” he was having a sexual relationship with, Helixon said.
You can read the rest at the link, but this article read more like the Duffel Blog than the Army Times.
I used to cry a lot during sex… really bothered me.
Then I realized it was the same knife I used to cut onions.
“…forcing her to have sex without a condom…”
So, in the Army, forcing someone to have sex is OK as long as a condom is used? Sounds like the prosecution is grabbing for straws.
Another argument for not sharing body fluids with crazy people.
This explains a lot about the military sexual assault court martial process.
It’s not a punchline (heh), the lawyers are themselves, in fact, certifiably nuts.
Is this Karma, taking its turn up to bat?
Never have a relationship with a co-worker, ever!
Flyingsword, that is the best relationship advice ever.
Just don’t get caught is my advice.
J6,the point is that you shouldn’t piss in your own canteen. WHEN the office romance breaks up–and it will–the career takes enfilading fire from both flanks.