A U.S. Naval Academy midshipman testified Tuesday that a drunken classmate walked into her dorm room and raped her in October.
Midshipman 2nd Class Mark Calvanico, of New Jersey, is accused of rape, providing a false statement, being drunk and disorderly, and conduct unbecoming of an officer. The hearing held at the Washington Navy Yard will determine whether Calvanico should stand trial before a military court.
“He had pinned me down ? and I kept telling him no and to stop,” said the alleged victim, who sobbed during the hearing.
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Calvanico and the female midshipman had been close friends, flirting with each other and considering a dating relationship, she said.
In the early morning hours of Oct. 14, Calvanico came to her room in Bancroft Hall three times smelling of alcohol, she said.
On the third visit, he climbed in her bed, pinned both of her arms and raped her, the midshipman said. She claimed that she tried to push him off and told him to stop, but he threatened to rape her roommate, who was sleeping 10 feet away, if she didn?t keep quiet.
Defense attorney Michael Waddington criticized the midshipman?s credibility.
There were no traces of DNA or semen belonging to Calvanico in the midshipman?s vagina, though her DNA was found on his boxer shorts, said Michelle Johnson, a Naval Criminal Investigative Services agent.
There was also no bruising or other evidence of rape noted by emergency room doctors, Johnson said.
“No intercourse, no rape,” Waddington said.
Her roommate said she did not hear the kind of struggle the midshipman alleged and did not see anything because her back was turned to them.
Under cross-examination, the midshipman struggled at times but shot back fiercely.
“He raped me ? what do you want me to say?” she asked. “? If you were a woman, you?d know what it feels like.”
