US Marine arrested for raping 14-year-old schoolgirl

TOKYO (AP) -- Japanese police arrested a U.S. marine Monday for allegedly raping a Japanese schoolgirl in southern Japan, a police official said.

Police officers arrested Tyrone Luther Hadnott, a 38-year-old marine of Camp Courtney in Okinawa Prefecture for the alleged rape of the 14-year-old girl, an official of the Okinawa Police said.

The suspect, whose hometown was not immediately available, allegedly raped the girl in a parked car in a town in central Okinawa Sunday evening, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity citing policy.

Okinawa police took custody of the marine for investigation, he said.

Under a mutual security pact, the United States has about 50,000 troops deployed around Japan.

Most of them are based on Okinawa and tensions there over troop-related crime and disputes over land use are endemic.

In 1995, the rape of a schoolgirl in Okinawa by three American servicemen sparked large-scale protests.

Officials with the U.S. Forces in Japan could not immediately confirm the case.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080211p2a00m0na005000c.html

disgusting....he should be punish harshly..

This american troops suck... american soldiers are idiots of the american society. They should be sent out of both korea and japan

^ Sense.

Soldiers are not usually the smartest of people.

Remember though without American soldiers South Korea would now be like North Korea, a country whose population is starving. And Japan wasn't punished as she could have been after WWII.

Futhermore he hasn't yet been found guilty. However if he was guilty, this would be a terrible crime.

Now the Japanese are protest of US marine Rape crime

Despicable $hitheads.

Mummm... "Tyrone"...

Maybe the girl could have escaped if she threw some "から揚げ" as a distracting device?

Yeah, well what do you expect to happen when your entire nation is essentially on its knees giving a 62 year long blowjob to the US?

That whole area is locked down now..... We've had minor protests in yokosuka, but the funny thing is, some of the guys who protest work on our base.

Personally, I used to think US soldiers were sent by the US government to protect and uphold the law.

But nowadays, they commit crime whereever they are. Specially that they're on the military service thinking that they could

take advantage of anything they want .

In the long run after being arrested , just because they belong to America they find it easy to get away from the crime they

committed without being convicted and without any further punishment.

They walk freely as if nothing happened. And that sucks.

Not true (I'm military in Japan), the guy who murdered that japanese lady 2 years ago is in prison for pretty much life, the guy who stabbed the japanese girl 6 months ago is in prison for a very long time, alot of the crimes that happen out in Japan that involve military personnel and japanese personnel, are usually handled by the Japanese, but they're turned over to the command for further punishment.

Well that's good to hear. Anyway, Im not just talking about US military in Japan. Im talking about them in different country.

Sounds like Japan would not let the criminal get away with such crime committed on their land.

I never see China offering any diplomatic initiative toward Japan at times like this. I mean this is the best time to offer Japan more security, so they can kick USA out.


China practices chicken-$hit diplomacy vis-a-vis USA. Chickens for nothing.

Because it's so rare that this happens
Note the sarcasm.

sense.
but IF he is guilty they should lynch him .............by his balls......

Well, you gotta realize that any country that has us military presence has a Status Of Forces Agreement (SOFA), it's too long to explain the specifics, but pretty much it's an agreement between the US and whichever country that says when this happens, the US will do this and you will do that. Now lets say if we were in Hong Kong (we don't have a SOFA there) and something like this happened, well he's fu-ked.... I've seen guys stay in jail in Hong Kong for 6 months to a year just because they didn't pay a taxi fare :-/... Regardless, I don't fu-k around when I visit someone elses country anyway. Been to 10 different countries in the past 3 years and I've never had a run in with the law.

Would be glad though if all US military are like you.

The majority of the people in US military are good and honest people, only a handful are involved in crimes. I know because i'm a Navy veteran myself.

Japan and Germany lost the war that's why you still have big the US military presence in in these regions. i believe that it was in the best interest of the US and its allies that we maintain military presence there rather than let them redevelope their own militaries again and become a threat to world peace.

if the US would stop senting troops to everywhere around the world, maybe this incident wouldnt have happen.

First of all, tenk you'z Jehn Kurry, sayv uzz out of Iruq.

Second, what does wits or iq have anything to do with committing crimes? Mind you those people in Enron who destroyed millions of people's lives, that NJ doctor who go to Cambodia to have sex with 10 yr. old girls ... and disregard many us troops who not only are educated but are good citizens.

noooooo shiiiit!!! hey i got another one, "if that guy hadn't been born, this incident wouldn't have happened"

They would find something else to b!tch about.... I want attention...........

If Japan and Germany had won the war then there wouldnt be troops stationed in their countries in the 1st place, would there?what kinda world would we be living in then?

The point is soldiers are humans just like everyone of us and there are bad ones and good ones. The majority of the people that i came across during my time of service were good people.

I'm not trying to defend the offender for what he did, but you guys are a bunch of idiots.



The guys I work with in my specialty are some of the smartest bunch of guys I've ever worked with and we are the stereotypical dumb grunts. I can pick any single person I work with, have him do the same work as you, and do 100 times a better job. You know what's the most important thing about our line of work? Common sense, which you seem to lack.



Keep in mind, before soldiers were soldiers, they were civilians just like you, and you can't generalize a whole military on a few bad apples. If you do, you're a dumbass.



It's not your fault you're so ignorant, but surprisingly military get in twice as much trouble as civilians do if they were to do anything wrong. One, they will have punished in the civilian world, and second, they will be punished again in the military, so when you see idiots walking around trying to start fights with soldiers, they usually don't want to because they're afraid of getting in trouble even though they can shove their foot so far up your @$$ you'll be tasting shoe shine.

Nowadays, soldiers overseas are getting sentenced to life for killing someone even if its justified.



If those countries didn't fu-k up in the first place, we wouldn't be there.

First off a Soldier is from the Army and a Marine is from the Marine Corps.

Second, they are still working on this case to see if he really raped her or not.
And why the the okinawan girl get on the motorcycle of the dude anywayz? Does that mean it was half of her fault too to speak to a stranger.
And we did get Moral and Ethics class on this. If this guy really committed the crime then I agree to give him the punishment that is handed. But not every military personnel is bad. It just happens that if 1 person does something wrong, it affects us all even though we help the relationship between both countries.

If we get kicked out of the country, Okinawa's economy would go down. Just this past weekend 4 day weekend, a popular street with bars and clubs were empty and businesses were down because military members were trying to stay low key. Taxis were mad cuz it was a payday weekend and no one was utilizing them as much as they have in the past. And how do I know this?! Cuz I been on Okinawa for 1 and a half years now.

I'd be pretty pissed if all US military were like me... There's some things I can and can't do as a person, and that's why there's people to pick up where I fail.

Anyway, the rest of what I have to say was pretty much said by everyone else who answered this thread that was military, which was every group has their bad apples.

LOlz Jeff Corwin is singing to an anteater and it's falling asleep hahahaha......

This criminal is an american pig! Japan should forced this criminal to perform hara-kiri.

Does it really matter why she got on the motorcycle? Not only is she 14 but regardless of that fact, if she don't WANT IT then you better keep off even if she's hanging around with you and she don't want it.



This superior attitude your taking is ridiculous. If you get kicked out of the Country, it could properly be rebuilt into something that can make money.

I am not picking on you at the exemption of all the others who make obstinately intolerant remarks, but couldn't we all agree that a man should be judged on his crime, and not on his nationality ?

if he was an aussie criminal, then I will call him an aussie pig. duh! But if this happened inside America, then I will call him a pig, just a pig.

What I am getting at is that the objectivity of the discussions is often getting sidetracked by snide remarks and extreme ethnonationalistic sentiments.

Certainly a vile criminal is a pig.
But if we include the ethnic background of the criminal, or his religion, etc. then we add an unwarranted slur to the issue.
Surely you can see that.

My previous post will put a smile on the victim's face if she can read it. I am very sure of that. If this will happened to me, I'm sure I'll call my rapist with words worst than American Pig.



Fine! if you don't want the American Pig then I'll use US Pig (as in pig from the US although not all in the US are pigs and there are plenty of sane humans there too) to call the criminal.


and oh btw, it's my job to insult criminals so please stop preaching to me Mr. Reverend.

I do not mean to defend the criminal.
The heinous crime of raping a minor deserves the full weight of civil and military law in this case.

As long as you distinguish the crime from the ethnic background then your statement is reasonable.
For example, if you use the term Muslim dog, to refer to a terrorist, then people will be up in arms about the slur that is insinuated against the Muslim people.
So if we grant Muslim people the respect of differentiating the crime from the culture, should we not also grant the American people the same respect of separating the crime from the ethnonational background ?

I am not insulting you. This is a discussion forum for everyone to join in. I am just adding my viewpoint to the discussion.
If our AF members see a fault in my reasoning, I am open to their replies.

I'm just defending my US military guys that's all, i'm not trying to get into national or ethnic debates .

Doc I would dispute this. They are not a bunch of Forest Gumps.
Perhaps we share a gripe with some aspects of US foreign policy, but we got to separate that from the soldiers on the ground.

You guys are right. Although in broader terms I believe what I said is correct its sill not right for me to generalise like that and I apologise.

Having said that from the soldiers I have observed and met personally, I believe thay are generally disciplined, proud(though not arrogant), focused and task oriented. Values needed to be a good soldier. Not too keen on the obeying orders without question but I guess another necessacity in being a good soldier. As part of their work, soldiers usually do a difficult job in difficult situations, largely unappreciated and away from home. Although this is never an excuse for commiting crimes, its not surprising that crimes are committed.

Well good news for any Okinawans or Japanese citizens. All military and SOFA status personnel are now restricted to Base. and people who live outside base can only transport from base to their homes. Lockdown will suck.
Have a good day.

your example totally sucks, moron! Only an idiot who would write "you(me), use, Muslim dog" in the same sentence as an example. Get a better example next time, ok ?!

again, you are preaching so please stop!




I know! duh!

The EM clubs are gonna be busy now.

I am not accusing you of using the term "Muslim dog".
I was using the generic "you", just as you were using the generic term "American pig".

I was trying to highlight that we may all sometimes approach a discussion with a bias on ethnic/national/religious issues and the generic terms we use can infer hatred for a whole population, instead of just the criminal.

You say the example I was using to illustrate my point is moronic, but I can not follow your logic.
What is your reasoning ?
Or are you just a flamer ?

wrong generic. Better used the "person" coz "you" is too personal unlike the generic American.



it's moronic coz american is not equal to muslim. If the rapist was a muslim american or german, I will still call him an american or german pig.



I both reason out and flame. It's so much phun sweetie! A reader of my posts will get distracted by the flames and become emotive and write stupid things to retaliate... and then booom!

This Japanese man should also be punished harshly :

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Apparently there's been another one:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7256056.stm

I hate how they use the term 'Soldier' for every military branch. plus that filipino girl was a buy-me-drinky girl so the dumbass prolly bought her over the bar from a mama san. still, rape is BAD! BUt don't worry, we're all restricted on base and itll be a while before some new law is written up.

They should gtfo.


No.

All rapists should be shot.

EM clubs??? Sucks those guys are on lockdown, we got a whole spiel about the incident from our captain today, good thing yokosuka isn't locked up..

Whao I thought everyone in japan is locked up, including all military services and SOFA status personnel and their family.

LOL, nah bro, from what I heard, only Iwakuni, Camp Fuji, and Okinawa are locked down. We're pretty close to getting locked down up here in Yoko.