Post by Linalin on Feb 17, 2005 10:42:13 GMT -5
Tokyo - Six former college football players in Japan have walked free after being found guilty of gang-raping a 15-year-old schoolgirl for seven hours in an apartment, according to a court ruling on Thursday.
Tomoyasu Seki and Tomohiro Kiyama, both 20, each got a one-year jail term suspended for three years on Thursday by the Hachioji branch of the Tokyo District Court, about 50km west of the capital.
Four others also walked free on Wednesday after the same court gave them one-year sentences suspended for three years.
A total of 15 football players from Kokushikan University in Tokyo are accused of gang-raping the girl, who is now 16, at a football player's apartment in suburban Tokyo in June 2003.
The students were arrested in December last year and the university expelled them the same month.
In his sentencing Thursday, Judge Chie Saito said a suspended term was appropriate because the football players had already "paid a high price for their act," as quoted by Kyodo News.
The football team at Kokushikan was one of the strongest college sports teams in Japan, but the university suspended its football programme after the gang rape. - AFP
It would seem that the only reason the judge is letting them go is because they played sports. I wonder if he'd also let a murderer off because they were a really good tennis player. Seriously, I'll train.
Tomoyasu Seki and Tomohiro Kiyama, both 20, each got a one-year jail term suspended for three years on Thursday by the Hachioji branch of the Tokyo District Court, about 50km west of the capital.
Four others also walked free on Wednesday after the same court gave them one-year sentences suspended for three years.
A total of 15 football players from Kokushikan University in Tokyo are accused of gang-raping the girl, who is now 16, at a football player's apartment in suburban Tokyo in June 2003.
The students were arrested in December last year and the university expelled them the same month.
In his sentencing Thursday, Judge Chie Saito said a suspended term was appropriate because the football players had already "paid a high price for their act," as quoted by Kyodo News.
The football team at Kokushikan was one of the strongest college sports teams in Japan, but the university suspended its football programme after the gang rape. - AFP
It would seem that the only reason the judge is letting them go is because they played sports. I wonder if he'd also let a murderer off because they were a really good tennis player. Seriously, I'll train.
