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August 07, 2003
Air Force Drops Rape Charges Vs. Officer
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) - The Air Force said it has dropped charges against an officer accused of raping an Air Force Academy cadet last year.
Second Lt. Ronen Segal was accused of attacking the cadet at his Colorado Springs home on Aug. 25 after a night of drinking.
The charges were dropped after the investigating officer said the woman was capable of giving or withholding consent and "did not in any way object to or resist" sex, the Air Force said Thursday, according to The Gazette of Colorado Springs.
Segal, a 2002 Air Force Academy graduate assigned to the North American Aerospace Command, was the second man associated with the academy to be charged with rape since February, when dozens of female cadets began coming forward to say they had been attacked.
Segal had faced charges of rape, forcible sodomy and dereliction of duty by providing alcohol to a minor.
The investigating officer, Army Col. William Sells Jr., recommended dropping the charges, and Segal's commanding officer, Brig. Gen. Duane Deal of the 21st Space Wing, accepted the recommendation.
Segal said in a statement he was relieved that the charges were dropped.
The woman who accused Segal of rape could not be reached for comment.
In the other rape charge filed since February, sophomore cadet Douglas Meester, 20, has asked to resign from the Air Force rather than face a court-martial on charges he raped a female cadet in his dorm room last October.
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