Ten-Year Sentence Sought for U.S. Marine in Okinawa for Sexual Assault

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A lay judge trial for a 22-year-old U.S. Marine Corps corporal based in Okinawa, who is accused of non-consensual sexual intercourse resulting in injury for allegedly strangling a Japanese woman in her 20s he did not know from behind in central Okinawa in May last year in an attempt to have sex with her, causing injuries including bleeding from both her eyes, was held on the morning of the 9th at the Naha District Court (Judge Kazuhiko Obata, pr…