Kentucky ? The Army arraigned a 101st Airborne Division soldier Friday who was charged with the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and three others in her family.

Pfc. Bryan L. Howard is accused of plotting in March to rape and murder the teenager in Mahmoudiya, a village about 20 miles south of Baghdad. Three other soldiers and a former Army private from the division’s 502nd Infantry Regiment also face charges related to the attack.

Howard deferred entering a plea or scheduling a court-martial during the proceedings at Fort Campbell. Both his attorney, Cpt. Ryan Rosauer, and his father, Lynn Howard, declined to speak with reporters.