Posted on 07/16/2016 2:01:03 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
A U.S. Navy sailor was sentenced Friday to two-and-a-half years hard labor for raping a Japanese tourist in Okinawa.
Justin Castellanos, 24, who was based in the district's Camp Schwab, pleaded guilty in May to raping the 40-year-old victim in his hotel room in Naha, south Japan on March 13.
The serviceman had found the woman, who was drunk and asleep in the hotel lobby, and taken her up to his room where he assaulted her.
'I am sorry for what I have done,' he told the court. 'My heart is filled with regret,' Stars and Stripes reports.
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Bring the troops home.
The serviceman had found the woman, who was drunk and asleep in the hotel lobby
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Something just doesn’t seem right about that.
I believe hard labor should be a more common form of punishment.
I don’t believe 2.5 years is enough for a rape.
Frickin’ disgusting.
This is a perfect example of how and why Hillary lost Iraq over nothing. That business about American soldiers having to have complete immunity from local laws was stupid nonsense. We don’t have complete immunity from local laws anywhere else except Britain.
He got off light.
Once he does his two and a half years for the Japanese, can the US military put him on trial again
I don’t think double jeopardy would apply in this case.
IF hard labor were a common punishment, it would in fact end up cutting down on the reoffending and would likely serve as a major deterrent.
So, a question.
What happens if the sentence is hard labor and the convict dogs it, doesn’t work, doesn’t break a sweat?
“I don’t believe 2.5 years is enough for a rape.”
No, not even close.
Upon his release, he will have to answer to the JAG.
Because many countries have harsh punishments for minor crimes.
When the Shah of Iran was in power, American citizens could (and did) get away with literal murder and basically it was a major contributing factor to the hostility that Iranians felt towards the Shah’s regime and of course, the US.
http://www.stripes.com/news/conditions-vary-widely-for-u-s-prisoners-in-japan-1.62878
Yokosuka prison is better than a US civilian would get in Japan.
I LOVE the idea of Hard Labor for convicts. Nothing annoys me more (well...Hillary...’nuf said) than MY tax dollars going to support people who lay about all day, shank each other, and/or work on a college degree (usually to become a Lawyer) on my dime.
Bring back Chain Gangs! Fix the d@mn roads, clean up trash, mow the grass, etc.
It would be too cool to move our exported manufacturing jobs back to the US and produce things cheaply via the prison system. Low labor costs, prisoners kept occupied, and of course, the prisoners would go towards covering the costs of their incarceration.
Works for me. But I’m kind of mean... :)
Likely he would get sodomized in a vat of japanese beetles by a japanese prison gang.
Seriously, no sympathy. When I went overseas back in the Seventies, they went to great lengths to tell us if we broke any laws of our host nation, no matter how minor it might seem to us, we were going to be at their mercy.
They always told us about some guy who got caught using drugs several deployments prior, and was still there.
Never heard that. Do you have some examples? I would be interested in reading about them.
In Germany, when a GI was charged with a drug offense on the Strasse, he had the choice of a court-martial or German civilian justice. The outcome was a foregone conclusion in either case, six months in Mannheim or two year in Leavenworth. GI’s invariably took the deuce in Leavenworth. The Germans got a lot more bang for their penal dollar.
Uh, don’t we want the manufacturing base back in America so people can work with good wages? Not for prisoners to do cheap labor?
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