According to US NCIS report- it was "consensual sex"
Naval Criminal Investigation Service agent Guy Papageorge, quoting from his investigation report dated Nov. 9, 2005, said Lance Corporal Daniel Smith "admitted he had sexual intercourse with the Filipino woman inside the van and that the other Marines cheered him on."
Actually the US embassy at first would not allow the other NCIS agents to testify citing something about diplomatic immunity thing.
"Consistent with our commitment to seeing that justice is served in a fair and impartial trial, the government of the United States has agreed to allow several US Government employees to testify at the trial of four US Marines accused of rape…. The US government has waived [the immunity] for the limited purpose of testifying at this trial," the US Embassy said.
Expect three more to testify for the prosecution.
And but so there you go. Daniel Smith had admitted to having had consensual sex with the victim..
But....I'll say it again and again. Going to a bar frequented by US servicemen, it's given thing already that one should expect that there would probably be some kind of sexual thing that would likely happen. She Should have avoided bars like that in the first place. I'm not chastizing the victim nor am I defending the servicemen.
Rape is something else and it's very grave and violates our worth as a human. One shouldn't get away with it..if found guilty.
By the way .... Carpentier, Smith, Silkwood, and Duplantis are members of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Force stationed on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. They had finished counterterrorism maneuvers with Filipino troops when the alleged rape occurred in a van.
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1 comment:
"But....I'll say it again and again. Going to a bar frequented by US servicemen, it's given thing already that one should expect that there would probably be some kind of sexual thing that would likely happen. She Should have avoided bars like that in the first place. I'm not chastizing the victim nor am I defending the servicemen."
Let's not give perpetrators of the crime an excuse for what they did. Rape can happen anywhere. Being in a "wild" bar like Neptune, doesn't give any man license to rape. If they want sex with their dance partners then they should ask them. If the girls say no, give it up and move on...
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