NAHA, Jun 25 (News On Japan) –
A court docket in Japan has sentenced a US marine to seven years in jail after discovering him responsible of sexually assaulting a lady in Okinawa final yr.
Lance Corporal Jamel Clayton, 22, attacked a lady in her 20s by choking her from behind and making an attempt to sexually assault her, the court docket dominated.
The case provides to a sequence of incidents involving US army personnel stationed in Okinawa, the place greater than half of the 54,000 US troops in Japan are primarily based.
Crimes dedicated by American servicemen have lengthy fueled resentment amongst Okinawa residents. The largest protest occurred 30 years in the past, when tens of 1000’s rallied after the rape of a 12-year-old woman by US servicemen.
Clayton denied the fees. His protection argued that the girl had been intoxicated and that her statements in the course of the trial earlier in June have been inconsistent.
However, judges on the Naha District Court sentenced Clayton, who’s from Ohio, to seven years in jail, citing the sufferer’s testimony as persistently credible, in response to Kyodo News.
Source: BBC