Okinawa Rape Arrests: U.S. Servicemen Detained For Allegedly Sexually Assaulting Japanese Woman

I remember the Subic Bay Rape Case in 2006, when a Filipina was raped by a US Marine. The victim in the case was publicly humiliated in an attempt to make her recant. The United States threatened to withhold humanitarian aid to the Philippines if the Marine we tried. When the Marine was found guilty of the rape in Philippine court, US authorities seized the Marine from Philippine Authorities and held him at the Embassy, enraging the Filipino people at the way the US trampled on their country's sovereignty, and scoffed at their Justice system.



Finally, in 2009, the victim "recanted" and the Marine was allowed to leave the Philippine Embassy, AFTER the victim was granted US Citizenship. The uproar in the Philippines associated with that resulted in Philippine Senator Loren Legarda saying:



"America’s act of buying Nicole’s silence is a precedent. They are bound to do this every time. While America keeps its processes intact and its soldiers protected, our morality as a nation is trampled upon, our justice system spat on.”



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subic_rape_case



In the past the United States has been far more willing to throw US Servicemen under the bus when they rape women in Japan. There is a double standard here. I will be following this case to see how the US deals with this.
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