A U.S. airman charged with raping a Japanese woman in Okinawa in June said during a trial hearing Tuesday before the Naha District Court that it was his understanding that the two had engaged in consensual sex.
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Timothy Woodland, 25, who is stationed at the U.S. Kadena Air Base, said the woman put her arms around his neck while they were walking through a parking lot and that he returned her embrace.
Asked by his lawyer whether he thought the woman agreed to have sex with him through this action, Woodland reportedly said, "Yes."
Woodland said he had met the woman for the first time that evening and that she had said yes when asked if she wanted to go out drinking.