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Bond set at $1.22 million for Saudi airman accused of raping teen on New Year’s Eve in Strip hotel

Updated Friday, Jan. 18, 2013 | 12:39 p.m.

Inside a Clark County courtroom Friday, bail was set at $1.22 million for the Saudi air force sergeant charged with raping a teenage boy New Year’s Eve on the Las Vegas Strip. Outside the courtroom, the airman’s attorney disputed police reports and maintained the teen approached the Saudi and his fellow airmen and offered to perform sex acts for money. Justice of the Peace William Kephart also scheduled a Jan. 31 preliminary hearing for Mazen Alotaibi, 23, who has been charged with two counts of sexual assault with a minor under 14 years of age, two counts of lewdness with ...

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  1. Wait, he's stationed at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, probably training, but he needs an interpreter in court? Why are we training him again?

  2. "Why are we training him again?"

    Because they buy our weapon platforms and keep ours fueled?

    I remember them back in the early 80's at Lackland walking around base holding hands. We were told to avoid them at all cost!!!!!

  3. Crap. Deport him back to Saudi, they have public executions. Good luck with that!

  4. What does Sharia Law say about homosexuality?

  5. Is it ok Saudi Arabia for an adult male to have sex with 14 year old boy even if the sex was initiated by the teen? If I remember correctly homosexuality is punishable by death in most of the middle east.

    Marijuana, the kid just asked for it, sounds like the lawyers are trying to pollute the jury pool.
    Lets hope for a speedy trial, conviction and long prison sentence.

  6. So what if the boy wanted some pot, And so what even if the boy offered to do sexual acts for it. Which I don't believe either case. That doesn't relieve the adult from being an adult and just because his lawywer claims that it was a bi-lateral agreement doesn't make it enforcable either on account of it's unlawful here in America and in the country the accused is from to have sexual relations with kids.
    If I was an attorney there is no way I claim that it was consensual nor would I say one of the acts was an accident.
    How the heck do you accidently put your hands and or other parts on someone?
    And no to the deprotation thing until he has served his time if convicted, There seems to be a misconception about this "Deport Him" that the other country will put him on trial for a crime that wasn't committed in his home country, No all you will be doing is setting him free.
    Get this his defence is I went to a strip club got drunk and excited and I was in a need and accidently had sex with a BOY CHILD.

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