A FORT CARSON SOLDIER WHO HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF RAPE WAS IN COURT MONDAY AS HIS COURT MARTIAL BEGAN. PRIVATE FIRST CLASS STEDMAN BELL IS ACCUSED OF TAKING PART IN A SEXUAL ASSAULT AGAINST A CIVILIAN WOMAN IN 2021. ANOTHER MAN WHO ALSO WAS ACCUSED OF ASSAULTING THE WOMAN WAS FOUND GUILTY IN AN EARLIER TRIAL AND SENTENCED TO A YEAR IN JAIL AND A DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE. THE FEMALE SAID SHE WENT HOME WITH HER BOYFRIEND, A FORT CARSON SOLIDER AFTER HAVING DRINKS. THE BOYFRIENDS ROOMATE REPORTEDLY ARRIVED AT THE RESIDENCE A SHORT TIME AFTER. THE FEMALE SAID SHE TOLD BELL TO LEAVE BUT HE WOULDN’T. THE WOMAN WANTED TO HAVE SEX WITH ONLY HER BOYFRIEND BUT ACCUSES BELL OF FORCING HIMSELF ON HER. THE VICTIM ALSO CLAIMED HER BOYFRIEND HAD UNWANTED SEX WITH HER AFTER THE ALLEGED ASSAULT.
