Updated Tuesday, May 20, 2008 0:00 am TWN, AFP

Japan to pay compensation to Australian rape victim

TOKYO -- Japan will pay compensation of three million yen (US$28,800) to an Australian woman who was raped in 2002 by a U.S. sailor who never faced prosecution, the victim and the government said Monday. The woman was raped in 2002 by a then sailor of the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier in the naval port city of Yokosuka, south of Tokyo.

Japanese prosecutors dropped the case without pressing a criminal charge against the sailor. The victim filed a civil case with the Tokyo District Court, which recognised the rape and gave her the right to seek compensation of three million yen from her attacker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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