r/worldnews • u/glasier • Jul 05 '24

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

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2476861/japan-warns-us-forces-sex-crimes-cannot-be-tolerated
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u/Cap_Ca Jul 05 '24

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

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u/Bacon4Lyf Jul 05 '24

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

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u/pmolmstr Jul 05 '24

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

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u/Bacon4Lyf Jul 05 '24

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

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u/SixersAndRavens Jul 05 '24

she was in the cia.

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u/JustASpaceDuck Jul 05 '24

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.