Okinawa sex shop made off-limits

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An Okinawa City sex shop now bears a "Japanese Only" sign after being placed off-limits to SOFA personnel Tuesday.


Okinawa sex shop made off-limits
By David Allen, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, March 22, 2008

OKINAWA CITY — A sex shop in one of this city’s “red light districts” has been declared off-limits for all personnel attached to the III Marine Expeditionary Force and Marine Corps Bases Japan.

The shop is called by the names “Shampoo” and “Diana” and was in the news recently during the trial of a 22-year-old Air Force dependent who admitted he beat and raped a 22-year-old Japanese woman there Oct. 1.

“Shampoo, located at 1-20-15 Misato, Okinawa City, Okinawa, Japan, is off-limits to all Status of Forces Agreement personnel attached to or accompanying III Marine Expeditionary Force and Marine Corps Bases Japan personnel,” the order by Lt. Gen. Richard Zilmer states. “This includes all military members, civilian personnel (National Security Personnel System and contractor), and all dependents.”

Kevin Parks, the defendant in the rape case, pleaded guilty to rape involving an injury and faces a sentence of five years to life at hard labor in a Japanese prison. His defense is to present evidence during a hearing Monday in mitigation for sentencing, contending that Parks was mentally impaired.

During previous hearings Parks said he heard the devil’s voice in his head telling him to rape and kill the woman, but then heard the voice of God intervene to spare her life. He admitted that he hit the woman in the face with a beer bottle, punched her several times and then raped her.


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