A court in Japan is judging a marine in the US to seven-year prison after finding him guilty of sexual assault with a woman in okinawa last year.
Lance CPL CPL Jamel Clayton, 22, attacked the woman aged 20s, with him from the back and trying for intercourse, the court ruled.
The case is one of a string involving US servicemen based on Okinawa Archipelago, which more than half of the US US soldiers are served in Japan.
The past crimes committed by American employees encouraged anger and protests to the locals in Okinawa, when thousands were past a 12-year-old girl.
Last year alone, there were four cases of sexual attacks involving members of the US service in Okinawa Brennon Washington, which was given five years for a december of December 2024.
Prosecutors in the case of Tuesday ask for 10 years for Clayton, According to the stars and stripes, consisting of US military news.
Clayton rejected all the charges against him. His defense pointed to the “intoxicated” the young woman in his trial story at first in June.
But Naha district judges gave Clayton, Ohio, seven years imprisonment after finding Victim testimonies have “a high level of credibility in whole”The Kyodo News Agency reports.
During the judgment, Judge Kazuhiko Obata described the attack as “vice”, with the woman hugged one to two minutes, the stars said.
According to Kyodo, the woman hits the wound in her eyes two weeks to heal.
The local opposition of US bases exceeds criminal cases, which extends a plane and pollution noise.
There are past efforts to move US bases to less populated parts of Okinawa, but many locals want them to be removed completely.
Instead, experts say Japan’s military alliance with the US louder for that will happen. And they said the Tokyo was given to Washington the challenges facing it, it could have been growing Chinese claims to written missile tests, or North Korea.
