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U.S. Marine sentenced to 12 months in prison for assault on Japanese woman

Wednesday, 25 June 2008

TOKYO (AP) -- A U.S. military tribunal sentenced a Marine to 12 months in prison for his part in an assault on a woman in southwestern Japan last year, wrapping up a case that has fueled public anger over the American military presence in the country. The court martial found Sgt. Lanaeus J. Braswell, 25, guilty of conspiracy to engage in indecent acts, sodomy, violating liberty and alcohol orders and fraternization, according to a statement by the Marine Corps Air Station in Iwakuni in southern Japan. Braswell was the last of four Marines sentenced in the attack on the 20-year-old woman in the city of Hiroshima in October. Wednesday's ruling ends a court martial hearing that began in May. The ruling also demoted Braswell to private and gave him a bad-conduct discharge. Braswell is the fourth Marine sentenced in the case. In May, Lance Cpl. Larry A. Dean, 20, was sentenced to two years in prison and Gunnery Sgt. Jarvis D. Raynor, 35, was sentenced to 600 days in connection with the attack. Earlier this month, Gunnery Sgt. Carl M. Anderson was sentenced to 15 months in prison. Japanese authorities also investigated the incident, but local prosecutors dropped the case in November. The U.S. military authorities pursued the case independently. About 50,000 U.S. troops are based in Japan under a security pact between the two countries. Many Japanese complain of crime, pollution and noise associated with the American bases. In May, a U.S. court martial found a 38-year-old U.S. Marine, initially accused of raping a 14-year-old Japanese girl February in Okinawa, guilty of a lesser charge of abusive sexual conduct and sentenced him to four years in prison. In April, the U.S. military charged a 22-year-old Nigerian citizen serving in the U.S. Navy with stabbing a Japanese taxi driver to death in March near an American naval base in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo. (Mainichi Japan) June 25, 2008

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