“I begged him to stop,” the private said. “He was laying on top of me. There wasn’t a whole lot I could do.”
The second witness, a 22-year-old specialist with the National Guard, said Simpson pushed her onto a bed in his office and raped her when she went to confront him about his criticism about her uniform and nail polish.
“He was laying on top of me. I couldn’t go anywhere,” the woman said. “I didn’t know what he was going to do because he was so mean.”
The woman, who dabbed at her face with tissues and wrung her hands, said she had a consensual sexual relationship with a drill sergeant before the alleged attack by Simpson around March 1995, and a consensual sexual relationship with a second drill sergeant afterward.
Simpson, 32, is accused of raping six women in the most serious case to emerge from the Army’s investigation into sexual misconduct at the weapons-testing center 30 miles northeast of Baltimore.
It is also the most racially and politically charged case.
All 12 of the Aberdeen soldiers charged so far are black, while most of the alleged victims are white. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has accused the Army of targeting black drill sergeants, while five white female recruits have said investigators unsuccessfully pressured them to accuse their black superiors of rape.
Army officials have denied race was a factor in their investigation.
The two trainees who accused Simpson of rape on Monday are white. A third woman who testified that he forcibly kissed her is black. All three alleged attacks occurred in 1995.
Simpson, who is married, already has pleaded guilty to having consensual sex with 11 trainees in violation of an Army rule prohibiting personal relationships between supervisors and subordinates.
But he said he is innocent of rape, as well as other charges of forcibly sodomizing, punching, grabbing or threatening trainees.
The offenses he has admitted carry a maximum of 32 years in prison. A single rape conviction could mean life imprisonment.
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