Court documents allege that a female staff cadet at the Royal Military College Duntroon woke to a Fijian soldier raping her in her room after she had returned home alone from a night out at Mooseheads.
The Canberra Times reports that Police arrested 23-year-old Samisoni Loloma Baikeitoga on Thursday after they received results from forensic testing.
Baikeitoga has been charged with sexual intercourse without consent.
Baikeitoga was refused bail in the ACT Magistrates Court, after prosecutors opposed his release largely on the grounds he posed a risk of flight.
Documents tendered in court say that the woman was out drinking at Mooseheads with a group of other staff cadets on March 31st this year.
She ran into a group of Fijian staff cadets from the military college, who she danced with.
The woman left with a male staff cadet, who dropped the woman off at the entrance of her accommodation.
About 2.45am the woman entered the building at Duntroon, went to her room and fell asleep.
The documents allege that the woman woke later to find a man on top of her engaging in sexual intercourse.
She told the man to "stop" several times but he did not, the documents allege.
He also picked up money from the ground before leaving.
The woman did not get a good look at the man, and believed the money was hers because the next day she was unable to find the cash she had taken from an ATM while out in Civic.
The next morning, the documents say, the woman told a friend what had happened and then she went to be examined at the forensic medical sexual assault centre at the Canberra Hospital.
On April 4th, she gave an interview to police.
Two days later, she called police and said Fijian cadet, Baikeitoga, had approached her at Duntroon and asked if she remembered him from "the night before".
Police interviewed all the Fijian staff cadets, and took a DNA sample from Baikeitoga.
Last Thursday, DNA testing identified him as a match to the samples taken from the woman during the forensic examination.
The documents further allege that when police searched the man's phone, a web history revealed that since the alleged rape, Baikeitoga searched "how to beat a sexual assault charge", "sexual assault sentence ACT", "how long does semen remain in the vagina" and "can you leave the country whilst under investigation".
Baikeitoga is due back in court on July 20th.
RFMF’s Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Jone Kalouniwai said that they will leave the issue to the Australian authorities but they have been receiving updates on the case from the High Commission.
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