Soldier accused of sex assault goes on trial in Fairbanks

Published: April 25, 2012 

FAIRBANKS -- A Fort Wainwright soldier is on trial accused of trying to rape a Fairbanks woman.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner says jurors on Tuesday heard two different accounts of what happened on Feb. 26 at the Frontier Lodge apartments.

Prosecutors say 27-year-old Casey Bogenrief, an Army specialist, was set to deploy in a few days when he met the victim, who invited him to her apartment to have a drink and maybe sing karaoke.

The soldier is accused of becoming violent and demanding to have sex with the woman and slamming her head against a door and trying to rape her.

Bogenrief's attorney says that if there was sexual contact it was consensual.

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