Australian Catherine Fisher is one step closer to seeing justice done after a Milwaukee Circuit Court judge decided earlier this month to hear the case against former U.S. serviceman Bloke T. Deans, who raped her in Japan in 2002.
Fisher, who lives in Tokyo, traveled to the United States to attend a preliminary hearing in the case, although she didn't make a statement to the court.
"I'm extremely pleased that the judge in Wisconsin has decided to take on my case and I now finally have the chance to get closure after a 10-year struggle for justice," she said. "But it shouldn't have taken this long — it shouldn't have taken 10 years."