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2006年 3月24日 (金) 13:13
http://news.goo.ne.jp/news/kyodo/shakai/20060324/20060324a4580.html
沖縄本島で女性２人に暴行したとして強姦（ごうかん）などの罪に問われた米軍嘉手納基地の軍属ダグ・トンプソン被告（３６）に、那覇地裁は２４日、懲役９年（求刑懲役１０年）の判決を言い渡した。
トンプソン被告は公判で黙秘。弁護側は捜査段階でのＤＮＡ鑑定の信ぴょう性や被害者証言が信用できないとして無罪を主張していた。
判決理由で横田信之裁判長は「現場に残された遺留物のＤＮＡのほか、被告の身体的特徴も被害者の証言と一致する。被告には反省の様子がなく、刑事責任は重大だ」と述べた。
判決によると、トンプソン被告は１９９８年６月に那覇市で、２００４年８月には同県北谷町でそれぞれ民家に侵入、就寝中の女性に暴行した。
US employee jailed for Japan rape (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4840082.stm
Okinawans have long complained about the presence of US bases
A civilian employee of the US military has been sentenced to nine years in prison for two rapes on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa.
Dag A Thompson, 36, was convicted of two separate rapes that occurred in 1998 and 2004, court officials said.
He was described as an ex-Marine who had sold cars at the US Kadena air base.
The case comes at a sensitive time, as the US redeploys its forces in Japan, amid some local hostility.
As many as 50,000 US troops are stationed in Japan, with 20,000 of them on Okinawa.
Some bases and personnel are being shifted around as part of a Pentagon effort to streamline its forces overseas, provoking strong opposition in areas where expansion is planned.
The US military presence is sensitive, due to local concerns about noise, the impact on the environment, and crime.
The country is still scarred by the 1995 rape of a Japanese schoolgirl in Okinawa by three American servicemen.
The US military did not immediately comment on the conviction of Thompson.
Japan's Kyodo News said that he was arrested in 2004, and that both of the victims were in their 20s.
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