Obama will have us registered for far less crimes.
I was a Navy Brat and lived at Yokosuka for three years.
The prisoners in the brig had to run a circuit of the base from sun-up to sun-down in formation, with their MP guards switching off every time they came past the brig ...
And, FYI, the base IS a part of the United States - so [if required by his conviction] he should have registered in Maine.
He was charged, tried and convicted in a military court, not a Japanese court. When convicted in military court of a non-military crime (like a sex-crime against a child), it is usually treated like a felony conviction, but the sex-crime registries are somewhat lacking and need to be remedied in these situations. The way the law is currently written, it's up to the military to inform local authorities, not the convicted. It should be both and the guilty should face specific penalties for not registering just like state and federal felons do. Additional Federal legislation needs to be written to close this loophole.
This case is well-known in military legal circles as one that is an embarrassed to the service. For reasons to long to go into here, he was sentenced to two years confinement (which is still way too little), but served less than a month - maybe even less than a week.
Was he living inside a US navy base and had to register to local county police or what?
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