4 Marines charged in alleged October gang rape

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4 Marines charged in alleged October gang rape
Kyodo News Service
Posted : Friday Feb 15, 2008 6:57:58 EST

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Four U.S. Marines have been charged with gang-raping a Japanese woman last October, according to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni. Japanese prosecutors dropped gang-rape charges against them in November.

The Iwakuni station said the U.S. military charged the four men in December with the alleged sexual assault of the woman, stealing cash from her and disobeying orders.

The 20-year-old woman told a preliminary hearing at Iwakuni on Thursday that she had been raped by the four men, aged between 20 and 39.

The hearing is being held to determine whether the four will be tried by court-martial. It will continue Friday.

The woman said that although she had agreed to have sex with one of the four, the other three joined in and she was raped by all four men.


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