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Earlier this week, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte pardoned an American soldier convicted of murder. Stock Photography.
The Philippines expelled an American soldier convicted of the murder of a Filipino trans woman in 2014, after the soldier was pardoned by the country’s President Rodrigo Duterte earlier this week.
“(Soldier) would like to express his sincere gratitude to President Duterte for forgiving him. He is very grateful for this gesture of compassion,” the soldier’s attorney said in a statement regarding the deportation.
The American has been sentenced by a Philippine court to ten years in prison for murdering a woman he met in a bar in the city of Olongapo. According to the verdict, the soldier is said to have murdered the woman after he was taken to his hotel room and warned that he was a transgender person.
The murder caused terror and outrage in the country, and the US military presence in the country has since been questioned.
– I hope you find inner peace and that you have learned something about human dignity and respect for others, regardless of gender and nationality, says the victim’s lawyer about the now pardoned soldier.
