US Marine Guilty in Politically Sensitive Philippine Murder Case
US Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton, who drowned a Filipino transgender in an Olongapo motel toilet in October of 2014 and generated international tensions over a visiting forces agreement between the United States and the Philippines, was judged guilty "beyond reasonable doubt" of homicide on Dec. 1.
Pemberton, then 19, picked up the 26-year-old transgende…
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