JAPAN - US airman arrested for kidnapping and ra of Japanese schoolgirl, 24 December 2023

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A 25-year-old US Air Force member, Brennon R.E. Washington was arrested on 27 March by the Japanese authorities for the kidnapping and rape of an underage Japanese girl in Okinawa. It brings back the memory of the gangrape of a 12-year-old Okinawa girl by three US servicemen in 1995.

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Japanese prosecutors have charged a U.S. airman at Kadena Air Base with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a minor in December.

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A U.S. Air Force member in Japan's island prefecture of Okinawa pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges of allegedly kidnapping a girl under the age of 16 and committing nonconsensual sexual intercourse in December last year, local media reported.

At his first hearing at the Naha District Court, Brennon Washington, 25, said, "I'm not guilty," asserting he is innocent of the charges, Kyodo News said.

The case came to light in late June, around three months after his indictment, as local police decided not to disclose the incident. The decision has inflamed strong and long-existing opposition to the U.S. military presence in the prefecture.

According to the indictment dated March 27, the U.S. serviceman allegedly invited the girl to speak to him in his car at a park in the village of Yomitan on Dec. 24, 2023, and drove her to his residence before committing indecent acts such as kissing and touching the lower half of the girl's body with the knowledge that she was under 16.

Washington was handed over to Japanese authorities following the indictment but was released after posting bail and is currently in U.S. custody, according to the Okinawa prefectural government.

U.S. soldier pleads not guilty to sexual assault of minor in Okinawa - China Military

A U.S. Air Force member in Japan's island prefecture of Okinawa pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges of allegedly kidnapping a girl under the age of 16 and committing nonconsensual sexual intercourse in December last year, local media reported.

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