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US military officers pass before the building of the Legal Service Center at US Marine Corps' Camp Foster at Kita-nakagusuku village in Japan's southern island of Okinawa on Friday. -- PHOTO: AFP
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TOKYO - KYODO News says that a US court-martial has convicted an American Marine of abusive sexual conduct with a Japanese teenager in Okinawa, in southern Japan.
Staff Sergeant Tyrone L. Hadnott is sentenced to four years in prison, Kyodo says.
Four other charges, including rape of a child under 16, making a false official statement, adultery and 'kidnapping through inveigling', or trickery, were dropped in a plea bargain, according to Kyodo.
Japan hosts some 50,000 American troops under a security treaty.
About half of them are based on the tiny, congested island of Okinawa. -- AP
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