18-year-old high school student arrested on suspicion of ‘sextortion’

This doesn’t need the drama of national news and being arrested and charged but some parental interventions and possibly some psychiatric assistance. The girl clearly was involved with arousing him and appears to be just childish attempt to manipulate her just like she probably was manipulating him. An innocent girl wouldn’t be sharing photos that couldn’t be posted without some dubious intentions herself.

Sometimes, teenagers hormones get the better of them. Surely, we've all had uncontrollable urges. But, if he admitted it, wouldn't this make it no longer "suspicion of?". Thank goodness the girl was able to get help from the police. So many times I read of their failure and the horrible results of their lack of vigilance.

リッチ, how do you know she was involved with trying to arouse him? Maybe they were AI generated. It is very easy to do these days. Or maybe they he was stalking her and took some compromising pictures of her. He is a dangerous predator and should be dealt with severely!

Police in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, have arrested an 18-year-old male high school student on suspicion of “sextortion,” after he threatened a 16-year-old girl that he would post photos of her naked online unless she had sex with him.

I do not care one bit that he is still in HS. He is 18 and an adult, he should be named! Time to show these new "adults" that they have to be responsible for their actions.

According to the police, the student and the girl met through a mutual friend some time ago,

Sometime ago? He is 18, she 16, just how long is "some time".........

Police did not give any details on how or when the suspect obtained photos of the girl.

Hmmm.... maybe the "friend" can answer this question? There is more to this than what is being reported here. Be really nice to have a "real" reporter give a full story, instead of these "articles" meant for click bait!

Yeah, that kid is going to places. Better to nip him in the bud today than to let him be and progress to more hardcore stuff.

DESPERADO, why don't come to your senses? You've been out riding fences for so long now,

Get a girlfriend, much better than going to Jail.

This doesn’t need the drama of national news and being arrested and charged but some parental interventions and possibly some psychiatric assistance. 

For a country where sexual violence is routinely normalize there is huge value in presenting the case publicly and making sure people understand forcing others to have sex have serious consequences and that people could realistically lose their whole futures for doing it. At this point the priority should be the public, not the criminal.

The girl clearly was involved with arousing him

Unfortunately one of the many fixed things in this site is that for every sexual crimes there will be users that will make every attempt to blame the victim. Extremely immoral and a huge example of what should not be done ever.

Get a girlfriend, much better than going to Jail.

If she's sending him naked pictures, it sounds logical that they are perhaps in a relationship already; she is the girlfriend.

I feel sorry for her in that her trust was betrayed in such a way. At least she went to the police so good on her for that!

If she's sending him naked pictures, it sounds logical that they are perhaps in a relationship already; she is the girlfriend.

Or got them from a third party, extortion, deceived her, etc. Unfortunately there are many ways for a victim to reach this situation.

YubaruToday  07:59 am JST

I do not care one bit that he is still in HS. He is 18 and an adult, he should be named! Time to show these new "adults" that they have to be responsible for their actions.

The police will not name him while still being at school because that will also identify who the girl is to be ridiculed and bullied at school.

The police will not name him while still being at school because that will also identify who the girl is to be ridiculed and bullied at school.

Oh, everyone at the school is fully aware of who this guy is. My guess is that he has come down with long-term COVID and is staying away from school.

Another possibility is she had sex with his friend or flirted with that friend. She sent those pictures to the other person or allowed the other person to take the photos. That third person shared them with him. He wanted to have sex with her after seeing the photos and attempted to blackmail her.

I wonder if the friend in common will be charged.

MarkX Had they been the article would have said it. She clearly sent them otherwise there would be additional charges. She bears some responsibility and they are children. Not national news. Parents should deal with it not the media or police. Total waste of time.

the student and the girl met through a mutual friend

gee, thanks "mutual friend"

Why complicate it, young guy got photos???, committed blackmail, pleads guilty, done. how many old guys and gals got knocked by electric cars during that period of time? apology, deliberate change of tack based on the full postings of today

リッチToday 07:12 am JST

This doesn’t need the drama of national news and being arrested and charged but some parental interventions and possibly some psychiatric assistance. The girl clearly was involved with arousing him and appears to be just childish attempt to manipulate her just like she probably was manipulating him. An innocent girl wouldn’t be sharing photos that couldn’t be posted without some dubious intentions herself.

It doesn't matter if she sent him pictures of herself or not - he's the one who committed a crime, and planned out a way he could rape her. Yes, rape her - coercion is forced sex, and forced sex is rape.

You are reaching for a way to downplay rape and to blame the victim.

YeahRightToday  11:26 am JST

The police will not name him while still being at school because that will also identify who the girl is to be ridiculed and bullied at school.

Oh, everyone at the school is fully aware of who this guy is. My guess is that he has come down with long-term COVID and is staying away from school.

Once again someone making a judgment call when they have no idea.

Girl_in_tokyo they are children and frankly any girl or woman sending nudes to a man or boy should expect them to be share on the internet. I’m sick of these I’m the victim. She took part. This isn’t the west thank goodness. The west has gotten totally insane on ruining children’s lives over nonsense. Maybe we can arrest her for sending child porn thru the internet. That’s what she did sending her nudes out. If this was the west persons that would be a crime also. She isn’t innocent.

She clearly sent them otherwise there would be additional charges.

The charges against the rapist are clear and enough to justify the arrest, further charges can be added later without rushing.

 I’m sick of these I’m the victim.

Which say much more negative things about you and your scale of values than about the victims. Doubling down on a terribly wrong conduct like blaming the victim is even worse. By this point this is too obviously something only people with low moral try to do.

The west has gotten totally insane on ruining children’s lives over nonsense

Extorting someone to rape her is not "nonsense" but a clear crime that should be punished, there is no defense on the crime, and automatically going to defend the criminal instead of the victim (whose life can be destroyed by this) clearly demonstrate some very negative things about you.

ッチToday  01:52 pm JST

Girl_in_tokyo they are children

Yes. Which is why we can forgive her for perhaps being too naive and not having good judgment in who she can trust.

And why we should be alarmed at a young man planning out ways to rape women.

and frankly any girl or woman sending nudes to a man or boy should expect them to be share on the internet.

What do you mean? That women who share nude photos with a man who turns out to be a not to be trusted and a horrible person deserve to be punished by having their photos put online?

Or do you mean that women should be very careful about sharing nude photos with men because there are men in the world who are horrible people?

I’m sick of these I’m the victim. She took part. *

Ah. You mean she deserves to be punished for her poor judgment and naïveté by having her phots shared and being threatened with rape. Got it.

This isn’t the west thank goodness. The west has gotten totally insane on ruining children’s lives over nonsense. Maybe we can arrest her for sending child porn thru the internet. That’s what she did sending her nudes out. If this was the west persons that would be a crime also. She isn’t innocent.

She is a child, as you pointed out. But you would punish her severely for having poor judgment and naïveté, yet give the boy a slap on the wrist for planning a rape.

How do you logically justify that, other than by admitting that you think women should not be sexual and should never express their sexuality.

Hm. But where does that leave men? It seems to me that oppressing women and punishing them for being sexual human beings is shooting your self in the foot.

On one hand, men continually complain that their girlfriends or wives aren’t giving them enough sex, and the on the other they want to oppress female sexuality and frighten them into repressing themselves, and teach them to be afraid of sex and be afraid of men..

You can’t have both.

There isn't enough information in the article to make a rush to judgment.

リッチ

they are children and frankly any girl or woman sending nudes to a man or boy should expect them to be share on the internet. I’m sick of these I’m the victim. She took part.*

There is no indication whatsoever in the article that the girl sent the boy naked photos. You decided that's what happened, so now you write about it like it's a fact. Shame on you!

Although no one here knows the facts, if you wanted to make guesses the fact that they "met through a mutual friend" would more likely suggest that the so-called "friend" shared the naked photos with the accused.

It's so easy to crop photos these days, especially with AI that it's quite possible that he did that. If he is charged and she isn't would seem to indicate that he was seen as the criminal and that she was innocent. She didn't necessarily send him photos and possibly she never posed nude. It seems that it's possible for this to have happened. Without knowing more, I'd go with cropping. Maybe not, but she is still the victim of a crime.

リッチ Nice victim blaming there. You are just plain wrong.

It needs to be stamped out at a young age.

Here is a lovely story I saw today of how a group of ES 6th grade boys molested a 1st grade girl and received no punishment. The victim would routinely bump into her molesters at and around school causing severe trauma-PTSD with no intervention at all by teachers.

https://news.goo.ne.jp/article/kanagawa/region/kanagawa-20240916211000.html

It doesn't matter if she sent him pictures of herself or not - he's the one who committed a crime,

IF she send nude pictures of herself to the guy, she is ALSO guilty of the child porn law. Sure he is guilty, but SHE is not without blame according to the law.

YubaruSep. 17 06:35 pm JST

IF she send nude pictures of herself to the guy, she is ALSO guilty of the child porn law. Sure he is guilty, but SHE is not without blame according to the law.

Taking selfies of yourself isn't child porn. Child porn is when an adult exploits a child. Since it is impossible to exploit yourself it's not child porn. This argument is ridiculous. JMFC.

IF she send nude pictures of herself to the guy, she is ALSO guilty of the child porn law.

She's a victim of herself? Is that your theory?

Taking selfies of yourself isn't child porn. Child porn is when an adult exploits a child. Since it is impossible to exploit yourself it's not child porn. This argument is ridiculous. JMFC.

Read what I wrote. SENDING the pictures is a direct violation of the child porn law.

She's a victim of herself? Is that your theory?

My comment was in response to the question not answered by the article regarding how the nude pictures were shared with the guy in question.

It certainly seems to me that she could have sent them along herself, and all I was stating was that IF that is the case she certainly could be seen as being guilty of violating the child porn laws here about sending pictures or videos of minors via the internet.

I have no idea of what she is, all I proposed is one plausible explanation of how the pictures got into the possession of the guy in question.

Police did not give any details on how or when the suspect obtained photos of the girl.

Or the other guy involved sent them along, which could make him guilty of the child porn laws, but one could reasonably think that if that was the case the cops would have noted that, but like I quoted here from the article they didnt give any details, which suggests the girl herself may have forwarded them to either one of, or both of the guys mentioned in the article.