An American civilian employee of the U.S. military was sentenced by the Okinawa District Court Friday to nine years in prison for raping two women in Okinawa Prefecture, local media reported.

Dag Thompson, 36, an employee at the U.S. Kadena Air Base, was convicted of raping a woman in June 1998 in Naha and the other in August 2004 in Chatan while the two victims, both in their 20s, were sleeping at home.

Although Thompson remained silent during the trial, the judge handed down the sentence citing the results of the DNA tests on biological fluid left in the crimes and the defendant's physical description which matched the victims' testimonies.

Source: Xinhua