Christopher M. Wasilewski recently was charged with rape in Ludowici.
According to information provided by the Ludowici Police Department, Officers Salvatore Genualdi and Frankie Goff responded to a call Sept. 12 on Loop Street in Ludowici, where an alleged sexual assault occurred.
Upon arrival, the alleged victim, Wasilewski's wife, told Genualdi that her husband had come to her house to go over their proposed divorce papers. The woman said he became upset with the content of the proposed divorce after reading the papers. She told police Wasilewski trapped her in a corner of the master bedroom and allegedly forced her to kiss him as she held their 9-month-old daughter.
The woman said she struggled free and locked herself and the baby in her daughter's bathroom.
According to Wasilewski's wife, her husband said he "could do anything he wanted to do to her and she couldn't say or do anything about it." The soldier then went in the other room, signed the divorce papers and left the home.
The woman said Wasilewski returned to the residence a short time later, raped her on the living room floor, told her not to contact police and left.
Genualdi said he was told Wasilewski currently was deployed in Iraq, but was home for a three-week leave. Wasilewski's wife said the two discussed divorce prior to his deployment and had decided to go ahead with it when he returned. The soldier was scheduled to return to Iraq on Sept. 13.
According to Genualdi, Wasi-lewski said, "I don't deny that I slept with her, but I do deny that I raped her."
Wasilewski was apprehended Sept. 12 at another soldier's home on Horesecreek Road and charged with rape, terroristic threats, kidnapping/abduction, battery, false imprisonment and child endangerment.
According to LPD Chief Richard Robertson, the soldier currently is being held in the Ware County Jail awaiting a preliminary hearing.