Kyoto University student gets 5 1/2 years for raping 2 women

A former student at Kyoto University was sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison Tuesday for raping two women, and two schoolmates got suspended prison terms for gang raping one of the two women in Kyoto last December. Ryo Ikeguchi, 24, was charged with raping the two female students. Jumpei Shirai, 23, was sentenced to three years in prison, suspended for five years, and Masahiro Kido, 22, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison, suspended for five years.

According to the ruling, the three defendants, members of the American football team, invited three women to a party at Kido's apartment in Kyoto's Sakyo Ward on Dec 22 and forced them to drink liquor until they became drunk. The three then raped one woman and Ikeguchi raped another after the third had left the apartment, it said."