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We’re letting the courts decide this, but some money quotes from INQ7:

First is this outrageous statement that blocking a U.S. navy ship will stop rape in the Philippines by Americans. Let’s see, I’m just pulling this statistic from the air, but there’s probably more Filipino men than American soldiers who rape Filipina women and boys in the Philippines. Rape is rape. These people are clouding the issue by injecting politics and other agendas. If we follow their logic, then we should ban all contact by Filipino men of Filipino women “to prevent the rape of more Filipinas by Filipinos.”

Nicole, a court-appointed pseudonym, also appealed to the government not to allow more visits by American war vessels “to prevent the rape of more Filipinas by American soldiers.”

This sounds as if it is worse to get raped by an American than a Filipino or other nationality. Rape is rape.

And then this, which was a bit of an eye-opener. Positive identification is crucial in criminal investigations. You have to be 100% certain — not any less — when you accuse someone.

He corrected reports that the SBMA did not do anything to help ?Nicole.?

“In fact, we were able to solve the case within 24 hours. We were able to identify those five men. ?Nicole? could not identify them then. It was only because of the efforts of the SBMA that we were able to identity and keep them here. That is why there is a case going on right now,” he said.

Nicole Rape Case blog (wow, may blog pala sila)