The Court in Japan condemned the US Marina for seven years in prison after he found him guilty of sexually attack in Okinawa last year.
Lance CPL Jamel Clayton, 22, attacked the woman in the 20th, he chokes was behind and tried sexual intercourse, the Court ruled.
The case is one of the sequences involving American services based in Achipelag Okinawa, where more than half of 54,000 American soldiers in Japan is based.
Previous crimes committed by American staff caused anger and protest to locals in Okinawa, of which 30 years ago, when tens of thousands, when thousands of thousands were taken to the street after rape 12-year-old girl.
Only last year there was four cases of sexual assault involving American services in Okinawa, including a member of the Brennon Washington Air Force, which was in December 2024. He gave five years for rape and kidnapping a minor girl.
Prosecutors in the case Tuesday were looking for 10 years for Clayton, According to the stars and stripes, which covers us military news.
Clayton denied all charges against him. His defense pointed out the “intoxication” of young women and inconsistencies “and inconsistencies during the trial before the trial in June.
But Judges in the Naha District Court gave Claiton, Ohio, seven years in prison after the invention Victim testimeans had a “high level of credibility in the whole”The recent Agency Kjoida reported.
During the verdict, Judge Kazuhiko Kajata described an attack as “mean”, and the woman chokes one to two minutes, said the stars and stripes.
According to Kyod, the woman suffered injuries to eyes that lasted two weeks to heal.
The local contrary to the American databases, only criminal cases, which extends to the noise and aircraft pollution.
There has been prior efforts to move American bases in less populated parts of Okinawa, but many locals want to remove them completely.
Experts, however, say that Japanese military alliance with the US is too strong that it happens. And they say that Tokyo needed Washington gave the challenges facing, whether the growing claims in China over the disputed waters and islands, or north Korea’s North Korea’s rocket tests.
