By This guy has spent three and half years locked up in the US Embassy in the Philippines and his Marine career ended because of a false rape allegation:
The family of Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith is anxious for his return to their St. Louis area home.
On Thursday, a Philippine appeals court overturned Smith’s 2006 rape conviction, ordering him released from custody on the U.S. Embassy grounds in Manila, where he was being held during the lengthy appeals process.
“We are overjoyed and elated at the comforting news our family has waited 3½ years to receive,” Smith’s father, Jim, said in a statement e-mailed Friday to Stars and Stripes.
“Our son, Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, was acquitted of all charges and freed to return to the United States,” he said.
“While our family is excited about this news we are most happy for Dan, who has returned to his life as a Marine until the process is completed for his release from service.”
Smith was serving with the Okinawa-based 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit that was deployed at the time to the Philippines for joint training with Philippines forces.
The court’s decision came a little more than a month after the alleged victim in the case signed an affidavit stating she now doubts Smith raped her.
In a five-page statement, the woman, now 25 and known publicly only as “Nicole,” said she might have been too drunk to know what she was doing Nov. 1, 2005, when she partied with Smith and other Marines in a Subic Bay nightclub and had later had sex with him in a van.
She has since moved to the U.S. with her American boyfriend, according to her mother. [Stars & Stripes]
1:24 pm on April 28th, 2009 1
Each of the following three offenses is reason enough to put someone in la Prisión Para los Hombres Estúpidos.
1. You’re a Marine
2. You pick up a Filipina in a dive
3. You screw her in a van while your friends watch
The three years that he was put away likely saved us all from some other travesty he would otherwise commit.
7:49 pm on April 28th, 2009 2
Steps 1 through 3 are ok. He just failed at the 4th step:
4) Pay her for her services. Don’t leave her on the side of the road and laugh at the $20 you saved, she might be mad enough to come after you.
8:40 pm on April 28th, 2009 3
After nailing her in front of his pals, he kicked her out of the van on the side of the road with her pants on backwards. They must have laughed all the way to the base.
She got her revenge…I wonder if there is a lesson here… hmmm…
11:00 pm on April 28th, 2009 4
I saw this in a Bang Bus episode!
5:34 am on April 29th, 2009 5
Well, her act got her to the U.S. Maybe she just opened a big “P” box.
10:26 am on July 28th, 2009 6
well it might be like you then u forgot to pay her so she had her revenge! im shame for nicole that she just lie about it need some more money anyway she from angeles phil…
8:25 am on October 6th, 2009 7
[...] In the general public and among journalists, there’s no shortage of debate over the definition of rape, issues of parental complacency and age of consent—despite the fact that Polanski himself plead guilty to statutory rape over 32 years ago. In this case we see the usual arguments about “when no doesn’t mean no” and delineations between “rape” versus “rape-rape.” After centuries of condemning evidence, we still return to the usual justifications and excuses when a man in a position of power takes sexual advantage of a woman. [...]