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Philippines deports U.S. Marine who killed transgender woman

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Philippines deports U.S. Marine who killed transgender womanThe Philippines on Sunday deported a United States Marine convicted of killing a transgender woman in the Southeast Asian country in 2014, after he was granted an absolute pardon by President Rodrigo Duterte. Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton left Manila’s international airport at 9:14 a.m. local time (0114 GMT) aboard an American military aircraft bound for the United States, according to Bureau of Immigration (BI) spokeswoman Dana Sandoval. Pemberton was accompanied by representatives from the U.S. embassy on his way to the airport, she told state television PTV-4.

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