CAPE MAY -- In what might well be an unprecedented opening to the public here May 1 at the Cape May Coast Guard Training Center of military criminal proceedings involving subject matter of the most sensitive kind, Gunner’s Mate 1st Class Wilson Medina faced his accuser, “J.M.,” a seaman assigned to Station Cape May and former recruit under his company command, in an open hearing on criminal charges he had non-consensual sex with him while the two were at Medina's home Nov. 10-11, 2007.

CAPE MAY – A Coast Guard Seaman, “J.M.” testified May 1 that an episode of watching boxing on TV and drinking beer and vodka with his former company commander Gunner’s Mate First Class Wilson Medina turned into something else entirely when Medina reached into his pants and grabbed his crotch.

The incident formed the basis for a Uniform Code of Military Justice Article 32 Hearing on the charge of Article 120 abusive sexual contact against Medina, heard May 1 at the Oceanside Facility at Coast Guard Station Cape May.