Accuser Walks Out of Marine’s Rape Trial
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From Times Wire Reports
A 22-year-old Filipina who has accused a U.S. Marine of raping her walked out of the trial, with her mother calling prosecutors “incompetent.”
The mother later text-messaged reporters saying the walkout was “because the public prosecutors are incompetent” and “we are asking for other state prosecutors.”
The woman has testified that Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith of St. Louis raped her Nov. 1 in a moving van at the port of Subic Bay while three other Marines cheered him on.
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