[CorporateStepsister]

Hard labor is actually a good idea; this guy isn't getting a long sentence, but it will not be spent idly in a cell.

[JPJones]

Bring the troops home.

[Moonman62]

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.

[ConservativeMind]

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.

[SeeSharp]

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.

[Timpanagos1]

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.

[Snickering Hound]

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.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

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.

[plain talk]

[diogenes ghost]

My marine grandson is currently on Okinawa, and this incident has had the locals stirred up. Not friendly at all to US servicemen right now.

[Gator113]

This POS should have been sentenced to at least 10 years. He not only raped her, he also kidnapped her.

[Laser_Ray]

2 & 1/2 years for rape is an embarrassment of a sentence. May he have a little encounter with her enraged father and brothers upon release and get beat like a xylophone by a hyperactive toddler.