By The USFK soldier who is accused of raping a South Korean woman has now been transferred to a Seoul jail:
A U.S. Army sergeant was charged Thursday afternoon with raping a 21-year-old South Korean woman in June and transferred from the confinement center at Camp Humphreys to a Seoul jail.
Chief prosecutor Lee Hong-jae, the chief prosecutor for the Seoul Central Prosecutor Office, said the sergeant — identified only by his last name of Kim — will be tried in Seoul Central District Court. A date for the trial has not been set.
Kim, a Korean-American stationed in U.S. Army Garrison-Red Cloud, allegedly raped the woman at 4 a.m. on June 14 in Dongducheon. During the attack, he allegedly beat her, then took her clothes and cell phone so she couldn’t escape quickly or call police. DNA samples from the attacker’s semen connected him to two other alleged sexual assaults in Seoul two months later, South Korean police said. [Stars & Stripes]
There has been very little Korean media attention surrounding this case compared to past cases of GI crime such as the Grandma Rape Case. Korea Beat looked for Korean media articles on the rape incident and found very little as well.
5:13 am on November 2nd, 2008 1
Of course…he is a "Homey," he will be treated with kid gloves and I would be willing to bet that either his relatives in-country, or ones from the states are already working behind the scenes to make this , or the victim(s) all go away…still, Korean authorities must put on a show to make it see as if they are not playing favoritism.
7:22 am on November 23rd, 2008 2
3 December is the next court date. Since he is Korean and willing to pay for the services rendered, so he'll probably be off the hook.