(1 Dec 2015) A US Marine was found guilty on Tuesday of killing a transgender Filipino after discovering her gender in a hotel in the Philippines last year.
Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton was convicted of homicide by first strangling Jennifer Laude and then dunking her head into a toilet bowl in the hotel they had checked into after meeting in a disco bar in Olongapo city, northwest of Manila in October last year.
Court clerk Gerry Gruspe said Pemberton was sentenced to up to 12 years in jail.
The killing has reignited calls by left-wing groups and nationalists for an end to America's military presence in the Philippines at a time when the US is reasserting its dominance in Asia, and Manila has turned to Washington for support amid an escalating territorial dispute with China.
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