A U.S. Marine lance corporal admitted Thursday on the opening day of his trial that he raped and beat a woman in Okinawa in May.
Jose Torres, 21, stationed at Camp Hansen, is accused of raping the woman on a narrow street in the town of Kin at around 3:15 a.m. May 25.
He hit her once in the face, grabbed her hair, forced her onto a staircase and raped her, prosecutors told the Naha District Court. The woman suffered a broken nose and other injuries that required three weeks to heal, they said.
Torres initially denied any wrongdoing when he was arrested June 18 but later admitted to the charges, they said. He is the third serviceman the U.S. military has agreed to turn over to Japanese police prior to indictment, based on a request from the Japanese government.