Ten midshipmen testified Monday in the case of a woman who said she was raped at a Naval Academy party last year, giving often-conflicting but mostly damning accounts as to how intoxicated the accuser was and her level of awareness about what had happened to her when she later recounted events to them.
The female midshipman alleges she was assaulted by three former Naval Academy football players after blacking out from heavy drinking at an off-campus “football house” party in Annapolis in April 2012. She said she later learned from friends and via social media that she had had sex.
The defendants are Tra’ves Bush, 22, of Johnston, S.C.; Joshua Tate, 21, of Eight Mile, Ala.; and Eric Graham, 21, of Nashville. They have denied any wrongdoing.
The case comes as the military is in the spotlight over how it deals with sexual harassment.
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