Documents Reveal Chaotic Military Sex-Abuse Record
BY YURI KAGEYAMA AND RICHARD LARDNER
US News • February 2014 • Views: 762
At U.S. military bases in Japan, most service members found culpable in sex crimes in recent years did not go to prison, according to internal Department of Defense documents. Instead, in a review of hundreds of cases filed in America’s largest overseas military installation, offenders were fined, demoted, restricted to their bases or removed from the military.
In about 30 cases, a letter of reprimand was the only punishment.