Fairfax Station Teen Charged In Connection With Sexual Assaults

FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA — Fairfax County police arrested a 19-year-old Fairfax Station man in connection with two sexual assaults that occurred in 2020, the police department said Monday.

On June 22, Frederik “Ben” Wolsak Jr. was charged with two counts of forcible sodomy and two counts of intercourse with a victim through mental incapacity or helplessness. He is currently being held at the county jail without bond.

A juvenile teen was also charged with rape in relation to the first reported sexual assault. The teen was taken into custody and processed at the Fairfax County Juvenile Detention Center.

Fairfax County detectives were notified of the first sexual assault in February 2020. In the incident, the victim had attended a gathering that involved the underage consumption of alcohol. When the victim became impaired, she was sexually assaulted by two men. At that time, the victim did not wish for the case to go forward, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.

In October 2020, a second victim reported being sexually assaulted in September 2020 by Wolsak, who was one of the suspects from the first incident, the police said.

Earlier this month, the victim of the first assault decided she was ready to pursue charges. As detectives reopened the investigative files from the first reported incident, they identified the commonalities in the actions of the suspect who assaulted the two intoxicated victims.

“It’s important for us as a society to remember that there is no one response to sexual assault to include when a victim of sexual assault is ready to report to law enforcement,” Saly J. Fayez, director of Fairfax County’s Victim Services Division, said in a statement Monday.

“A victim of a sexual assault’s decision to report their attack is theirs to decide, and we want them to know if they are not ready to report is not only okay, but it is a normal response,” Fayez said.

The Fairfax County Police Department said its detectives are seeking anyone with information about these cases or may have had inappropriate contact with Wolsak to call the department’s Major Crimes Bureau at 703-246-7800, option 3.

Tips can also be submitted anonymously through Crime Solvers by phone – 1-866-411-TIPS (866-411-8477), or by text by typing “FCCS” plus tip to 847411.