Army
Army Sergeant "Sexually Attacked Female Cadets as Young as 15"
An Army Sergeant accused of sexually attacking and raping female recruits has gone on trial at Southwark Crown Court in London.
45-year-old Edwin Mee is accused of carrying out more than 21 assaults, including three rapes, while he worked as a recruitment sergeant.
The attacks are alleged to have taken place on military bases, against 11 victims aged between 15 and 25, between October 2010 and September 2011
The court heard that he left a young cadet pregnant after raping her during a campaign of sex abuse against female recruits.
Prosecutor Rosina Cottage QC told the jury that the attacks had been an "abuse of trust and power by this defendant in order to bully and groom young women".
The Scottish officer is accused of establishing a "pattern of bullying sexual behaviour that was repeated again and again".
He denies all the charges against him.
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