article_snippet.sent: An army recruitment sergeant got a teenage cadet pregnant after raping a teenage cadet pregnant during a campaign of abuse against female recruits, a court heard today.
article_snippet.sent: One girl was just 16 when Mee allegedly slapped One girl bottom and when One girl said One girl didn't like it the Scottish officer told One girl: 'It's you who needs the army'.
article_snippet.sent: A week later One girl returned to the office to book the British Army Recruitment Battery - a computer based test and the British Army Recruitment Battery - a computer based test was then that the Scottish officer allegedly slapped One girl bottom.
article_snippet.sent: One girl decided not to pursue a career in the Army 'because of the defendant's behaviour'.
article_snippet.sent: One girl explained to the court from behind a screen that during One girl first meeting with the sergeant, when One girl was around 19, after One girl applied to join the Army online and was invited for an interview with Mee in 2011.
article_snippet.sent: he allegedly asked if One girl would date people of other races because the Army 'doesn't stand for racism'.
article_snippet.sent: On another visit, her mother told the recruitment officer that One girl was 'worried' about One girl daughter joining the Armed Forces.
article_snippet.sent: I lay down, the sergeant held her ankles
article_snippet.sent: I didn't want to do it and the sergeant was like, reassuring me because I had a skirt on.'
article_snippet.sent: When I was leaving the sergeant hit my bum when I was walking out the door.
article_snippet.sent: Later One girl claimed to have contacted Mee to say that One girl had decided not to join the Army because of the 'physical aspect of it'.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Cottage said: 'This is a pattern of sexual, bullying behaviour that was repeated again and again to the female cadets to make the female cadets feel that The Scotsman had power over the female cadets and control over the female cadets future.'