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ARLINGTON, Va. — The Army Judge Advocate General Corps is adding 15 special prosecutors to focus on sexual assault cases, marking the first time it has hired prosecutors for a specific crime, said Lt. Gen. Scott Black, U.S. Army judge advocate general.
The prosecutors will both try sexual assault cases and train the other 350 prosecutors in the JAG corps on handling such cases, Black told reporters on Monday. They will be assigned to the Army’s busiest jurisdictions, such as forts Bragg and Hood.
Some people on this board think that sexual assault in the military and by the miilitary in occupied countries is not a problem.
I believe that they're wrong.
I don't believe that this step goes far enough and the last paragraph says that they don't know where the funding will come from.
As usual, the problem is not being addressed until it is at a critical point and the response is too little, too late.
I agree. I have been hearing about these problems for a long time and the attitude from the military has been that it isn't a big deal. Well I guess it is.
When it appears in Stars & Stripes and there are now PSAs on American Forces Network (AFN) TV, it's past the critical stage and they're trying to cover their butts.
Same thing with suicides and telling soldiers that if they seek help for depression and substance abuse that they won't get a medical or dishonorable discharge.
Black servicemen are continuing to commit rapes in Okinawa and the Japanese are fed up with it.
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Japan PM says Okinawa rape case "unforgivable"
Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:21pm EST
By Linda Sieg
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's prime minister Tuesday denounced the suspected rape of a 14-year-old girl by a U.S. Marine on the southern island of Okinawa, an episode with echoes of a 1995 case that jolted the U.S.-Japan alliance.
The Marine, 38-year-old Tyrone Hadnott, based at Camp Courtney on the island, was arrested Monday on suspicion of raping the schoolgirl when the two were in a car Sunday.
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Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed anger over repeated incidents despite frequent promises by U.S. officials to prevent them. "This will have a big impact on future U.S-Japan relations," he told a news conference.
What makes you point out that he was black.
Rapes in Okinawa are committed by white (usually marines) as well.
At the same period, similar incidents occurred in Iwakuni on mainland Japan.
Yes, it's wrong. In fact, it's inexcusable and horrid.
But there was no reason to make it a racist comment.
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