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By By Bernadette
H. Carreon
Horizon news staff
A Palauan national who was
convicted along with three males of raping two Chinese women in 2004 in
the Commonwealth of Mariana Islands will serve his prison term here.
President Remengesau told reporters on Wednesday that the government requested
CNMI to transfer Hadley Renguul in Palau to serve his remaining prison
sentence at the Koror Jail.
"It was for humanitarian considerations," the president said.
The president said Renguuls parents are old and that it was their
request to see their son.
Renguul arrived in Palau Wednesday night. He was sentenced to 30 years
imprisonment of gang rape.
The president also thanked CNMI Gov. Benigno Fitial for granting the request.
According to an article from the internet , a group of four males including
Renguul, Jose Rabauliman, Sheldon Yano and Jake Ito raped two Chinese
women at Suicide Cliff, Saipan in 1998.
The article said that the two victims who used to work at Caesars
Sauna in Garapan, were heading toward their barracks after havingbreakfast
at Js Restaurant when four men grabbed them in front of the Horiguchi
building and brought them to Suicide Cliff in the early morning of March
28, 1998.
It was learned that under the prison term agreement , Palau can make a
formal request to Saipan to transfer Palauans convicted in CNMI.
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