The Tokyo District Court has sentenced a 27-year-old former nursery school teacher to 14 years in prison for sexually assaulting girls at a nursery school in Tokyo and filming the assaults with this smartphone.
According to the ruling, Nagumo Osada sexually assaulted seven girls aged between three and six years old in classrooms and closets between September 2021 and December 2023 at the nursery school, NHK reported.
Presiding judge Hideki Murohashi noted that "this was an extremely despicable crime that took advantage of the victims' age, when they were unable to resist," and that "it is only too easy to imagine the grief of the parents whose precious children were assaulted at a nursery school where they should have been able to leave their children safely."
During the trial, Osada apologized, saying, "I made innocent children victims in order to satisfy my own selfish desires.”
© Japan Today
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Michael Corleone
well he should've got life in prison without the possibility of parole
Mr Kipling
Call me old fashioned but a 27 year old man working in a nursery school rings my alarm bells. I know it shouldn't but it just does.
Fighto!
Kudos to the judge for handing down a half decent length sentence. Yes - I do wish it was life. I dearly hope this evil paedophile expires in prison.
AdamP75
14 years, thats it!?! Wake up, Japan! This guy will be released in his 40’s and WILL reoffend. He has a disease and he will not be rehabilitated.
IMadeAnAccountJustForThis
How about a bit of sympathy for the children who will have deal with this for the rest of their lives?
The guy only got 2 years per child. Considering how he seems to have a serial habit, I feel it's a bit light
Legrande
He filmed his acts and we know why
BertieWooster
"Selfish?" That's not selfish, it's bent!
BertieWooster
"Call me old fashioned but a 27 year old man working in a nursery school rings my alarm bells. I know it shouldn't"
You're quite right. It shouldn't.
WoodyLee
Well done, then get him registered as a sex offender and put a collar on his neck when he gets out .
Zaphod
Good grief. 14 years is a slap on the wrist for that.
tigerjane
All nursery schools should be required to have cameras in their classrooms, and so parents can have a piece of mind that there is no abuse going on and I have seen it by women yelling at children.
SDCA
This pos needs a taste of his own medicine. He shouldn't get to work with kids when he gets out and should be on a sex offender's list.
I also hope these kids are able to grow up fine without these scars haunting them. The school that hired this pos should pay for these kid's education up to college.
buchailldana
Why is it wrong for a " man" to work in a kindergarten?
I'm a 56 year old who works in kindergartens every day.
Nothing suspect.
This guy deserves every minute in jail.
A disgrace to humanity
Garthgoyle
I wonder. After those 14 years in jail, will his name be on a list of sex offenders and unable to attain a job at another nursery, or blocked from ever working with children?
He not just sexually assaulted them but also filmed it. What a sick fella.
purple_depressed_bacon
This case is further proof that Japan cares little for sex crimes and the welfare and wellbeing of its children. 14 years? For what this PoS did? His victims will live with the trauma of his despicable actions for the rest of their lives but he only gets 14 years? I'm disgusted.
Gazman
14 years per victim to run consecutively would seem better to me…
dutch
Any young man that works at a nursery school is an immediate red flag.
There was one at my son's nursery school and was gone after 3 months.
I think the other parents felt the same way I did and made their displeasure known.
Eugene
Castration
リッチ
Disgusting and should get LIFE and totally agree. The other staff also should be jailed. There is no way they didn’t know and if they didn’t know they should be jailed anyway as it their responsibility to care.
hooktrunk2
What's with the suspicion against male nursery school workers? What about men who have kids at the same age then? What about young male school teachers then? What this guy did was disgusting, but assuming all are young men are this way is equally disturbing and disappointing.
When I was that age, I as very good at entertaining kids. Lots of energy. Way back when I was working at an Architecture firm, at the Xmas party I had my co-worker's kids thoroughly entertained while they were having boring adult conversations in the kitchen. We were trooping around my boss's home like a parade in Where The Wild Things Are, playing hide and seek and then I was dragged across the living room floor like dead bear by all the kids.
My boss thanked me profusely and said I found my calling, but I was reluctant to have anything to do with kids because the generalized slander people like Dutch and Mr Kipling post.
At 36, I finally opened my own Kids and Craft English school which I ran for 18 years with my wife(for older kids). Not a single instance in my life have I ever had a single solitary desire to molest kids. Gross.
I have another friend that IS an actual male nursery school sensei and he is amazing with kids. Completely normal trustworthy guy.
caroti
Erm, maybe because males are statistically 80%-90% more likely to commit sexual abuse against children than females?
cakehole3201
I have no doubt you are a great male kindergarten teacher.
Because men are not nornally naturally drawn to child care as a career and 10 times more likely to commit sex crimes against children or anyone for that matter.
Side note: Some years ago I was shocked when some Japanese mothers whom I had just met that day left me to take care of there 3 preschool daughters.
blue in green
Selfish is a gross understatement.
He is a pedophile, and what he did is beyond “selfish”.
When he is released from jail, his “selfishness” will persist.
dutch
what's worse, your hurt feelings at an instinctual feeling we all have thats confirmed by the statistics mentioned above...
...or the trauma those 7 little girls will have to struggle with the rest of their lives?
Futaro Gamagori
Should be death penalty
iron man
Mr Kipling, Sure, it should not but multiple stuff around the world says it should raise alarms, there is a huge difference between family member caring interaction and 3rd party interaction?
Zaphod
blue in green
Yep, for once term pedophile that some people like to bandy about all the time is used correctly here. This creep is one.
smithinjapan
So... two years per sexually molested baby. Sounds about right for Japan.