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SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A female Air Force airman has testified that a basic training instructor sexually assaulted her in his office at a Texas base and told her to keep quiet.
The woman told jurors at Staff Sgt. Luis Walker's court-martial Tuesday that he ignored her pleas to stop while pulling her onto a bed in his Lackland Air Force Base office. She is the first of 10 alleged victims to testify. The Associated Press typically doesn't identify alleged sexual assault victims.
Walker is charged with raping one female recruit and sexually assaulting or having inappropriate sexual or personal contact with nine others.
Walker denies the allegations.
He is among 12 base instructors who have been charged or who are being investigated in a burgeoning sex scandal. Walker faces the most serious charges.
A military prosecutor told jurors that a Texas Air Force base instructor charged with raping a female trainee and coercing others into having sex with him is a "consummate predator."
The prosecutor, Major Patricia Gruen, told the seven-member military jury at the outset of Staff Sgt. Luis Walker's court-martial Tuesday that Walker raped the trainee in a supply closet at Lackland Air Force Base and had inappropriate sexual contact with others in a dormitory.
Walker is the first to stand trial in a sex scandal at the San Antonio base where U.S. airmen go through basic training that has led to charges or investigations against 12 people.
Defense attorneys told jurors there is no evidence corroborating the trainees' claims.
Walker faces up to life in prison if convicted.
