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Article: 3 GIs Guilty in Rape of Okinawa Girl
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 7, 1996
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NAHA, Okinawa Three U.S. servicemen were convicted Thursday in
the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl and sentenced to 6 1/2 to 7
years in prison in a case that became a symbol of American bases on
Japanese territory.
The verdict, issued by a panel of three judges at the Naha
District Court, followed six months of protests against the U.S.
presence on Okinawa.
Navy Seaman Marcus Gill of Woodville, Texas, and Marine Pfc.
Rodrico Harp of Griffin, Ga., were sentenced to seven years each.
Marine Pfc. Kendrick Ledet of Waycross, Ga. received a 6 1/2-year
term.
years.
The sentences, tough by Japanese standards, will be served in
Yokosuka prison, south of Tokyo. Rape causing injury ...