Posted on 02/11/2008 6:18:10 PM PST by Ronin
NAHA (Kyodo) Police in Okinawa Prefecture arrested a 38-year-old U.S. Marine on Monday on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old local girl, sparking stern protest from both central and local government officials against the United States and the U.S. military.
The suspect is identified as Tyrone Hadnott, a staff sergeant who belongs to the Camp Courtney base in the southernmost Japanese prefecture. He has denied raping the girl, saying he only forced her down and kissed her, the police said.
According to investigators, Hadnott is suspected of raping the schoolgirl inside a car parked on a street in the town of Chatan around 10:30 p.m. Sunday.
The Marine and the girl allegedly met about two hours earlier in the city of Okinawa, when he talked to her and two of her friends, and she agreed to ride his motorbike because she thought he would give her a ride home.
But the suspect took her to his house and tried to kiss her, according to the police. When the girl started crying, the serviceman told her he would take her to her home in his car, and the two got into his vehicle.
After the girl parted with her friends, they called her mobile phone several times, the investigators said. They made an emergency call to the police around 10:20 p.m. after the girl replied "Help me" and hung up the phone.
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Posted a few days ago actually.
Hang the Dude,,
Must be a different incident. It’s in my Japan Times this morning.
Why are you posting this again and posting it in Breaking news?
Bud just what you admited is enough to turn my stomach. She was 14.
I did a search but it didn’t come up. It’s page one news in my Japan Times this morning.
Hi, Ronin. If it’s in the Japan Times, seems to me it should be posted, because it’s liable to harm relations there as well.
“Why are you posting this again and posting it in Breaking news?”
Because most don’t actually READ FR. Most just turn on their computer, go to their DRUDGE home page and start posting.
That’s what I’ve observed.
I say castrate him and then throw him in the Japanse prison... with some big lonely sumo wrestler-types.
The incident reminded me of the 1995 rape incident involving a young girl," she said,
Your comment on this alledged rape makes it sound as if Marines are out raping young girls repeatedly. They reference a case over 10 years ago. If the guy is guilty he will pay, just like any other criminal rapist with trial by judge, jury, military, etc.
Note, A Reminder :
"Compensation of Japan's War Rape Victims -- Japan has still not provided any compensation for its war-rape victims. As indicated by the rapporteur, as many as 200,000 girls and women were part of the Japanese programme of "comfort women" or jugun ianfu. Our research shows that more than 1/2 of the girls and women died as a direct result of the treatment they received. Many survivors were detained in the programme for 3 to 5 years. Most participants were raped 5 - 20 times a day."
Taking the lowest figures, at any given time, there were about 20,000 jugun ianfu. Each of them was raped at least 5 times per day. That means that there were at least 100,000 rapes per day arranged by the Japanese authorities and carried out by its soldiers -- 100,000 rapists per day. 100,000 times at least five days per week equals at least 500,000 rapes per week -- or 2 million per month -- or 24 million per year. Even assuming only 5 years of the programme, there were at least 125 million rapes -- 125 million rapes against the women of Korea, Philippines, Burma, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Netherlands."
As a conservative, ex-pat, Ronin is a U.S. ambassador to a nation and a people who are our allies. He represents what is best in America.
I am certain that his intentions are not to hurt or insult Marines or America with his post and comments.
It is far more likely he is lamenting the damage this has done to our image, and that of the Marines, to a people who are very sensitive to the military presence in Okinowa. 10 years ago is yesterday in this kind of situation and we need to be doing it better and cleaner than the other guy.
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.
Thanks for the kind words, and no, I was not trying to hurt or insult Marines. I am just greatly frustrated because this is going to be used to beat Americans in general, and US servicemembers in particular, over the head in the coming weeks.
Every time there is an incident like this, the brass at USFJ is forced to clamp down on servicemembers. Liberty will be restricted again, mandatory lectures will be scheduled, a whole spectrum of anti-American groups will be invigorated... and on and on and on...
As for me personally, I can expect to get a strong ration of crap from drunks on trains, see girls squeak and flee to the other side of the street when I go outside, etc.
Yes, the last major incident like this happened more than 10 years ago. But we are talking about the rape of a 15 year old in a nation where crimes like this are vanishingly small.
Oh sure, if he’s guilty he is going to be in a world of hurt. Japanese prisons are not fun places, but the damage done to American interests in Japan is going to linger for a long time to come.
My first thought was, Bill Clinton is too old for the Marines.
I read that crime in '07 was up 27% with more gun violence often attributed to the "yakuza". Child sex tourism, sex trade, human and drug trafficking is lucrative under the yakuza. Who's their main customers?
With all due respect, to your comment : "the rape of a 15 year old in a nation where crimes like this are vanishingly small.
I do not read that the trafficking of sex is vanishingly small.
History to the present day, shows Japan and/or Okinawa have had sex crimes for decades. The Switzerland-based International Organization for Migration estimates that as many as 150,000 trafficking victims could be working in Japan's sex industry just in 2005. Now, underworld syndicates are causing the crime rate to rise even more. A Japanese man allegedly chained a teenage girl with a dog collar for more than three months, repeatedly raped and beat her after meeting her on the Internet.
Perhaps, the Marines/all branches should just come home, after decades of keeping our allies safe, where there is a push out and economic pull back attitude on whether they should remain on some foreign soils or not - ongoing discussion for decades.
I find the case over 10 years ago tragic as well, but the news media there seems to leave out the lucrative business of sex trade by these gangs or yakuzas, like they are not part of the equation.
I mean no disrespect, just am trying to understand from an American point of view. Sex trafficking of young girls, women, boys is a horrific crime in my book.
Was stationed there in the mid 70’s,,had the same thing happen,,as far as I know the dude is still in a Japanese prison..Hope so anyway,,
The Japanese Police don’t suspect anyone, if they arrest you they have enough to put you away. Their conviction rate is in the high ninety percentage rate.
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