Marines’ attorneys allege woman fabricated gang-rape story

[unhappycamper]

Marines’ attorneys allege woman fabricated gang-rape story
By Travis J. Tritten, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Sunday, February 17, 2008

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan — A Japanese woman who says she was gang-raped by four Marines in October had strong motives to invent the charges, defense attorneys for the servicemembers said Friday during closing remarks at a preliminary hearing.

The woman, who was a 19-year-old minor at the time, alleges two gunnery sergeants, a sergeant and a lance corporal kidnapped her outside a Hiroshima dance club and took turns raping her in the back seat of a minivan.

The defense said the woman consented to the group sex but was angry with the men for stealing her money and forcing her out of the van in a parking lot.

She later made up the gang-rape story to Japanese police to keep the truth from her mother, said Christopher Carlson, attorney for defendant Gunnery Sgt. Carl Anderson.

“It’s a lot better than telling mom she had serial relations with servicemembers,” Carlson said. “I think it’s quite clear we have an individual who does not want it found out she was doing something wrong.”

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[LulaMay]

1. Of course they did. And people on this site want to deny there's rampant sexism in the world.

[Bobbieo]

2. And that Marine Cpl never did kill the pregnant Marine Cpl did he?

The one who is on an extended vacation in Mexico. Already the details are forgotten!!!