{"id":48518,"date":"2025-06-03T14:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T14:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/06\/03\/army-major-on-trial-for-rape-charges-involving-more-than-a-dozen-women\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:30:22","slug":"army-major-on-trial-for-rape-charges-involving-more-than-a-dozen-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/2025\/06\/03\/army-major-on-trial-for-rape-charges-involving-more-than-a-dozen-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Army major on trial for rape charges involving more than a dozen women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An Army major charged with sexually assaulting or raping more than a dozen women over a four-year period in the Washington, D.C., area began this week at Fort Meade, Maryland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maj. Jonathan Batt faces 63 accusations, which include 10 specifications of rape and 15 sexual assault charges against 17 women, according to the Army\u2019s Office of Special Trial Counsel<\/a>. Batt also faces charges of aggravated assault, battery, obstruction of justice and abusive sexual contact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Batt has pleaded not guilty to all charges, his civilian attorney Nathan Freeburg told Stars and Stripes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The major was charged in October with 76 violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice against 20 women. Some of the charges were dropped prior to trial because some of the victims declined to participate in the proceedings, Michelle McCaskill, spokeswoman for the Office of Special Trial Counsel, told Stars and Stripes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\t