U.S. Soldier Raped a Filipina & Claimed She's a Prostitute

When I heard the news about another Filipina raped by a U.S. soldier ( this time it happened in Japan) and the case was dropped due to "insufficient evidence", I couldn't believe why her hospitalization for a few days due to serious bleeding and her medical findings are still not enough evidences that there has been a rape going on.During the previous reports,the soldier told the investigators he paid her for sex at the Hotel New Century in Okinawa City. An employee of the hotel said the two checked into the hotel at 10 p.m. on Feb. 17. The soldier left at 9 a.m. the next day and the woman was later taken to a local hospital for treatment of serious bleeding, ---the police said. Why on earth would they not charge him of rape if the victim showed serious evidences as a result of the act? Was it because this soldier claimed he paid this woman for sex and for that,it made him blameless for the woman's condition? Let me define rape in case these policemen neglect its meaning: Rape is the act of forced penetration of any bodily orifice (vaginally, anally, or orally) or forced cunillingous, involving violation of the survivor's body and psychological person. The assault is accomplished by the use of force, the threat of force, or without force when the survivor is unable to physically or mentally give her consent. It is the destruction of a feeling of control over one's body, life, and the course of events. Rape is an experience of violation, degradation, and humiliation. It often infuses the survivors with the shock of their own vulnerability. Obviously,there has been an assault accomplished by the use of force.A person has a right to refuse sex at any time, even during a sexual encounter. The same rules apply even if the people are married to each other...which means I could sue my husband if he force me to!



I found another informative article...a journal entry by Cheryl Spear in connection with the rape of prostitutes. Rape is rape is rape. But when the trier of fact is aware that the victim is a prostitute, the constraints of dominant discourse and structural context come into play and affect the perspective in which the rape is seen. Yes, she was raped. But, she has chosen to sell her body and therefore is given less protection than the women who does not sell her body. Under the U.S. Constitution we are each entitled to the full protection of the law, so that it is a violation of our constitutional rights to accord some of us less protection than others because of our "chosen" profession. We refuse to take into consideration that these rape victims who happened to be prostitutes chose prostitution for survival from among these situations like extreme poverty, sexual and/or physical abuse at home, and homelessness. Last year, there was a case in Philadelphia,U.S.A. wherein a bar association has criticized a judge for refusing to uphold sexual assault charges against a man who allegedly let friends rape a prostitute he had hired. The poor victim got double trauma because of added insults to the injuries.

Now back to that poor Filipina whose filed case has been dropped by the Japanese court, I wonder why she did not manage to contact the front desk of her condition inside the room..for sure the rapist was sleeping for the rest of the night which gave her a chance to contact somebody through the phone...or was she so traumatized that all she did was cry overnight for self-pity... Maybe she also had a gun pointed at her that she could not scream or do something to stop him from hurting her... or if not(I doubt she could ignore the pain after all those hours she spent with this guy),she was just ok being sexually abused as long as she got paid but surprisingly when she woke up,she maybe did not get the exact amount agreed or did not get any payment at all that's why she filed a rape case...just a thought what threatened her so much to not inform the hotel staff of her raped condition and bleeding while the guy was still fast asleep so police could catch him at that moment and she might win the police sympathy if the had seen her agony inside that hotel room...