U.S. soldier gets seven years for raping Italian girl, 17

(ANSA) - Vicenza, February 23 - American soldier Jerelle Lamarcus Gray was sentenced Tuesday to seven years six months in prison for raping a 17-year-old Italian girl.
    The victim was leaving a night club on Vicenza's Viale della Pace near the American Carlo Ederle barracks when Gray attacked her and raped her.
    The perpetrator was also sentenced to pay the victim 100,000 euros.
    Gray is already serving six years for gang raping and beating up a six-month-pregnant Romanian prostitute for several hours after taking her to an isolated area along with fellow American serviceman, Darius Montre McCullogh, on the night between July 14 and 15 last year.