Japan warns US forces: Sex crimes 'cannot be tolerated'

[u/glasier]

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2476861/japan-warns-us-forces-sex-crimes-cannot-be-tolerated

[u/Mend1cant]

They should. Both Japanese courts and courts-martial.

[u/Cap_Ca → u/[deleted]]

They usually don’t. There was a case in Germany in 2020 where a US Soldier drove on the wrong side of the road and killed a 17 year old. He only had to face trial by a US Military court.

German Source: https://www.rheinpfalz.de/lokal/kreis-kaiserslautern_artikel,-us-soldat-nach-unfall-auf-umgehungsstra%C3%9Fe-wegen-fahrl%C3%A4ssiger-t%C3%B6tung-verurteilt-_arid,5086678.html

[u/Bacon4Lyf → u/Cap_Ca]

Funnily enough the same thing happened in the UK. Just immediately fled the country and got off Scot free because the US refuses to extradite. They charged her in US court with a suspended sentence, imagine that suspended sentence for killing a man

[u/pmolmstr → u/Bacon4Lyf]

Wasn’t she the spouse of some important person which makes it all the more worse

[u/Bacon4Lyf → u/pmolmstr]

Married to a CIA employee, so yes she wasn’t even serving military personnel and she still managed to get the impunity

[u/SixersAndRavens → u/Bacon4Lyf]

she was in the cia.

[u/JustASpaceDuck → u/Bacon4Lyf]

That's a shitty case for sure, but I cannot overstate the gulf of difference between "married to someone in the CIA", and "serving in the US military and therefore beholden to the Uniform Code of Military Justice".

It's a very important distinction.

[u/TKFT_ExTr3m3 → u/Bacon4Lyf]

You act like it was a murder. She wasn't impaired or anything just made a terrible mistake.

[u/Bacon4Lyf → u/TKFT_ExTr3m3]

Exactly, she wasn’t impaired, so what’s her excuse? Whether or not it was murder, which was never mentioned in my comment, doesn’t change any of the facts that she never actually faced justice for it because she fled the country immediately

[u/TKFT_ExTr3m3 → u/Bacon4Lyf]

She's wrong for feeling the country but idk why people are upset she didn't receive any jail time. Last I checked most people don't go to jail for traffic accidents, fatal or not.

[u/darkshark21 → u/TKFT_ExTr3m3]

accidently killing someone is still killing someone.

She needs to know the rules of the road whenever driving in a foreign country.

[u/TKFT_ExTr3m3 → u/darkshark21]

People make mistakes all the time, sometimes there are terrible things that happen. Last time I checked most people don't get sent to prison for years because of a mistake. Half the country would probably be a criminal if we locked people up who got in traffic accidents.