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this was a quid pro quo in exchange for a visa...
that said, the victim was put up to placing the charge against the marines by feminist lawyers and anti American groups who used the charges to try to stop the US soldiers from training here with the Philippines military.
she was drunk and met the marines in a bar, and had sex with smith on the ride home without making any objections...the next morning she changed her mind, and her original story was gang rape against all five marines...
the DNA however only found Smith’s DNA...so he was convicted of rape, even though under Philippine law it would only have been rape if she was unconscious...essentially the court changed the law and convicted Smith to stop the protests.