Neighbors are shocked by rape accusation on Okinawa

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Marine Staff Sgt. Tyrone Luther Hadnott, accused of raping a 14-year-old Okinawa girl last Sunday, allegedly took her to this house in Kitanakagusuku, where he allegedly forced himself on her before she ran out of his house in tears. Okinawa police say he chased after her, calmed her down and persuaded her to let him drive her home. Police say he raped her inside his parked van later that night.


Neighbors are shocked by rape accusation on Okinawa
By David Allen, and Chiyomi Sumida, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Sunday, February 17, 2008

KITANAKAGUSUKU, Okinawa — News that the American living among them is being held on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old Okinawa girl shocked neighbors of Marine Staff Sgt. Tyrone Luther Hadnott.

“I could not believe it at first,” said Yoriko Takara, who lives next door. “He was always friendly and used to greet us in Japanese.”

But, though quiet, Hadnott, 38, who is separated from his wife and lives alone, also seemed to have frequent female visitors, she added.

“Women, every time a different one, would often visit him,” she said. “Almost every Sunday morning, I’d see a different woman leaving his house. I think it was sometime last year there was an argument when a woman visited him while another woman was still in the house. But that was about all the trouble I ever heard.

“Still, I told my four my kids to stay away from him.”


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=52532

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1. I believe it

If you've ever been there, you'd believe it, too!