An URGENT Appeal To Find U.S. Military Fleeing Sailor For Rape Of Australian Woman In Japan And A Plea For The First 24-Hour Rape Crisis Center To Be Established In Japan.

We, the undersigned, are astounded to learn that the brutal and heinous acts of sexual violence continue to plague us not only in Japan but worldwide by the U.S. Military. We question that the U.S. government is openly more focused on protecting the image of its military with immunity rather than protecting the victims of these rapes via transparent and efficient investigation.



In the early hours of an April day in 2002, an Australian woman was raped by a U.S. sailor inside her van in a parking lot in Yokosuka, Japan, outside a U.S. military base. After receiving an indifferent response from police, learning there was no 24-hour rape crisis center in Japan, and finding that neither Japanese prosecutors nor the U.S. Navy intended to press charges against the alleged perpetrator, she decided to take action so that future victims would not have to go through what she did.
The woman filed a civil lawsuit in 2002,seeking damages from the U.S. sailor, who was stationed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk. In November 2004, two years later, the Tokyo District Court declared in the suit that the man had in fact raped the woman and ordered him to pay 3 million yen in compensation. However the woman has no way of collecting from the man because he fled Japan before the suit ended, without knowledge to any party involved at the Tokyo District Court and was in fact discharged by the U.S. Military in 2002. His whereabouts have been unknown since then. The woman also tried to hold the man's lawyer for contempt of court but the lawyer died before she could take action.

It is said to be true that while in Japan, all active duty military personnel are subject to both U.S. and Japanese laws. It is understood that members of the US Forces in Japan have certain rights, privileges and special protections which have been accorded to them by the Status of Force Agreement (SOFA) which defines the relation between the U.S. military and host country. However it is also believed that in return, the SOFA makes it the duty of all members of the U.S. Forces to respect the laws of Japan and to abstain from any activities inconsistent with the spirit of this Agreement .The Zero Tolerance decree jointly announced in 2004 by NATO's Ambassador of Norway Kai Eide and Ambassador Nicholas Burns of the U.S.A. denounces trafficking and purchasing of sexual activities by all of their military personnel and is supported in full by Deputy Secretary of Defence Paul Wolfowitz. We believe that this spirit of Zero Tolerance of sexually violent activities against women must be extended to crimes such as rape and be fully investigated and prosecuted in all countries that host the U.S. military.

We believe that military commanders are responsible for seeing that individuals under their authority who run afoul with host - country laws ensure that these laws be respected while in the host country of Japan. The Uniform Code of Military Justice, the foundation of military law in the United States regulating military personnel conduct must also be re-examined to strongly enforce prosecution of sexually violent activities globally.

The US military was fully aware that the defendant had an ongoing court case against him in Japan. Therefore the law was not upheld when he was discharged by the US Military immediately after him retaining a lawyer and blatantly fleeing this court case for rape against him.

This petition is written to demand a thorough, professional and transparent investigation to be carried out without delay to find this rapist who has received immunity and has not been held accountable for his crime, with absolutely no action taken against him.


PLEASE DO NOT LET HER RAPE CASE EXEMPLIFY THE USUAL IMPUNITY AND LACK OF REGARD FOR SEXUAL VIOLENCE COMMITTED BY THE U.S. MILITARY.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE DUE TO THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS TO FIND THIS FLEEING RAPIST AND WE URGE YOU TO CIRCULATE THIS PETITION TO YOUR FRIENDS AND SIGN THE BELOW.

We demand that an immediate investigation with the proper U.S. and Japanese authorities will promptly be made. That a swift and successful conclusion will prevail to ensure that justice will be served and this situation will be remedied without delay by finding this fleeing rapist and to make him responsible for his crime and punished in accordance with the law.

The U.S.military has been raping and murdering women and children in Japan and Okinawa for too long and here below are just a few records of these most shocking crimes

Sep.4,1955 A six-year-old girl, living in Ishikawa City was found murdered in Kadena area. A US sergeant was arrested and sentenced to death in December. Rycom Compensation Examining Committee informed the bereaved family of the payment of $2000 compensation, one eighth of the amount claimed. Later, the sentence was reduced to 45 years' heavy labor servitude

Oct.28,1959 A 23-year-old woman employee of a club for foreigners was strangled to death in Center Street of Koza City. Two days later, a 24-year-old US serviceman was arrested, and sentenced to three years' imprisonment the next year.

Jul.3,1963 A 22-year-old woman employee of a diner, was strangled to death. A 19-year-old US Marine confessed his crime and was sentenced to eighteen years' imprisonment by court-martial.


Jan.24,1965 A 28-year-old woman working at a bar for foreigners was murdered at her house in Kin Village. A US serviceman was examined as a suspect by US Army detective organization.

Jul.22,1966 A 34-year-old woman was found murdered in Shinkaichi, Kin Town. US Army arrested a 19-year-old military deserter as a suspect.


Jan.24,1967 A 32-year-old woman employee was strangled to death in her diner in Shinkaichi, Kin Village. A 19-year-old US Marine was arrested by the US Army and was sentenced to 35 years' heavy labor servitude by court-martial.


Jan.30,1968 A 35-five-year-old maid was killed in a barrack of US Army. A joint investigation meeting of military and civilian police was held on April 1.

Jun.20,1968 A 23-year-old woman employee of diner was raped and heavily injured on the beach of Ginoza Village by a MP on duty.

May 28,1970 A 21-year-old woman employee of the army was assaulted on the way to work by a US serviceman in the army post of Yafuso, Urasoe Village. The accused was judged 'not guilty' by court-martial due to lack of evidence .

May 30,1970 A 16-year-old high school girl was assaulted and was stabbed with a knife to serious injury in Gushikawa Village. A 22-year-old US serviceman was arrested by Koza Police and US Army. The criminal was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Villagers criticized it saying, "the punishment is too light".

Dec.7,1970 On the retrial of a 21-year-old US serviceman, who had been on trial by court-martial under the suspicion of hitting a 51-year-old woman and running away in Itoman Town since September of the previous year, was judged not guilty. US Army decided to pay $17,000 compensation

April 23,1971 A 23-year-old woman employee of a diner was struck with a stone to death by a US serviceman in Ohyama, Ginowan City. The suspect was arrested by U.S.Army but was judged 'not guilty' due to lack of evidence.

May 1,1971 A 42-year-old woman was stabbed to death at her home of Kin. US-Japan Joint investigation was pursued on the assumption that the crime was committed by US servicemen.

Aug.4,1972 A 37-year-old woman employee was strangled to death by an 18-year-old US serviceman at a bar in Ojana, Ginowan City. In the following year, the serviceman was convicted to be imprisoned for life.

Dec.1,1972 A 19-year-old US serviceman strangled a 22-year-old woman in Koza City. The serviceman was sentenced to be imprisoned for life at the court of first instance.

1973 -- A 12 year old girl living close to Kadena Airforce base was intercepted by an American clad in civilian attire who sexually molested and stalked her for several days. He reported having regular sexual activities with his own daughter as well as with other young girls. On their last day, he paid her $5 USD for her 'services'.

Mar.18,1973 A 43-year-old woman employee of a diner was strangled to death at her apartment in Koza City. The city police office and the US Army jointly concluded that the murder was conducted by a US serviceman.


Apr.12,1973 A 73-year-old woman picking up bullets at Blue Beach, Kin Village was run over by a tank and killed. The US Army notified the Prefectural Office of exercising the primary jurisdiction asserting that the incident occurred in line of duty.


Oct.23,1974 A 52-year-old woman manager of a Cafe at Henoko, Nago City was, while sleeping at her cafe, hit to death with a cement block by a US serviceman intending robbery.

Apr.19,1975 Two junior high school girls were raped by a 21-year old US serviceman in Kin Village. This incident became an object of public concern, and the accused was handed over to Japan side after he was indicted. He was later sentenced to six years imprisonment

Aug.2,1982 A 33-year-old woman employee of a diner at a house building site in Henoko, Nago City, was strangled to death by a 22-year-old US serviceman

Oct.29,1985 Ishikawa Police Office arrested two US servicemen in the act of raping a woman after abducting her by a car on her way home.

Jul.17,1993 A 25-year-old US serviceman under confinement within the base as a suspected case of raping a 19-year-old Japanese woman escaped back to United States by a commercial aircraft. He was arrested in US and was sent back to Okinawa.

May 10,1995 A 24-year-old insurance saleswoman was hit on the face with a hammer by a 20-year-old US serviceman in front of her apartment house. She died.

Sep.4,1995 Three US servicemen gang raped a 12-year-old schoolgirl.

June 29, 2001, 20-year-old Okinawan woman raped on her car in a parking lot

April, 2002. An Australian woman was raped in her car in a parking lot.

Nov, 2002. A Major 41 years old, a nineteen-year veteran of the Marine Corps. was accused of attempted rape. The Major was eventually released by the Japanese government and he returned to the United States, where we heard nothing of him again. . . Nothing that is until he was arrested in Laurel, Maryland in connection with the October 2 , 2005 kidnapping of an 18-year-old student in West Virginia. He was being held in the attempted abduction of high school student.

May 25, 2003, a 21 year-old Camp Hansen Marine, left a Kin Village bar with a local 19 year-old woman, had sex with her in a nearby alley, and hit her in the face breaking her nose

Jan, 2006. A 22 U.S.sailor beat a 56-year-old woman to death near a US navy base in Yokosuka, near Tokyo and robbed her of $130.


THE LIST OF CRIMES BY THE U.S.MILITARY IS ENDLESS...........

WE REPEAT...PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS AUSTRALIAN WOMAN'S RAPE CASE EXEMPLIFY THE USUAL IMPUNITY AND LACK OF REGARD FOR SEXUAL VIOLENCE COMMITTED BY THE U.S. MILITARY.

TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE DUE TO THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS TO FIND THIS FLEEING RAPIST AND WE URGE YOU TO CIRCULATE THIS PETITION TO YOUR FRIENDS AND SIGN THE BELOW.


This plea by the Australian woman includes that the FIRST 24 HOUR RAPE CRISIS CENTER BE ESTABLISHED IN JAPAN.

"The women and children in Japan have suffered long enough.They have had no where to turn to and one rape is one too many and that this persistent history of violence of abusing, raping and murdering women and children by the U.S. military globally MUST STOP!"

Thanking you very kindly for your time and support.