Yongsan GI found not guilty of sexual assault at hotel

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Yongsan GI found not guilty of sexual assault at hotel
By Jimmy Norris, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Friday, January 16, 2009

YONGSAN GARRISON, South Korea — A five-member panel found a 595th Maintenance Company soldier not guilty of aggravated sexual assault and indecent acts after a two-day court-martial that ended Wednesday.

Pvt. Johnny Santiago was accused of having sex in Yongsan Garrison’s Dragon Hill Lodge with a woman who, on the heels of a July 4 drinking binge, said she was too drunk to consent, according to testimony.

At the hotel, she said, she slept in a friend’s room while her friend slept on the floor and Santiago slept on a sofa bed.

The woman said she passed out shortly after arriving in the room and awoke the next morning to find herself naked from the waist down with dried semen on her leg.

Later that day, she went to Brian Allgood Army Community Hospital to report she had been raped.


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