Man sentenced to life in prison for raping 10 elementary school girls

Breaking into homes of elementary school girls, that's not even adult or teenage, that's real psycho.

It said the incidents traumatized the girls, affecting their lives afterward, including their relationships with others.

He destroyed multiple lives. Sounds like something I would give the death penalty for instead of 3 meals a day.

The animal needs to die in prison. It is a shame he cannot be executed for the despicable crimes he has committed - destroying the lives of so many innocent girls.

That is a hanging crime.

In many countries a "life sentence" for these crimes could possibly end in his death or at least disfigurement or serious injury. He would be targeted by other prisoners and always at risk of violence. Sadly this is not the case in Japanese prison.

What a monster!

This Japanese man deserves castration, imprisonment, solitary confinement then death penalty by hanging with a faulty rope.

Crimes against children, especially of this nature should be dealt with to the harshest degree. Life in prison with 3 square meals a day is far too lenient for a disgusting PoS like this. This animal ruined multiple lives and his victims will suffer for the rest of their days because of his repulsive actions. Too bad he's being chucked into a Japanese prison. Put him in gen pop in a prison in say, the US, and let it leak to the inmates what he got booked for, and he'd be lucky to survive the night.

Frightening and sad for these girls. 

-For ourselves, we recently instralled a Tapo motion sensing camera and a couple other lights for our home. It records clips onto a microSD card.  

-We are also putting shatter resistant vinyl on our 1st floor windows.  

-Japan is still relatively safe, but obviously there are sickos like this guy out there to worry about.

In Japan, I often see elementary school kids walking home by themselves and having no parents at home with them. Hopefully, parents learn about the dangers by hearing about this and arrange safer methods for after school care.

Hopefully, parents learn about the dangers by hearing about this and arrange safer methods for after school care.

I like the alternative scenario better.... Identify and root out the perpetrators before they act.

In Japan, I often see elementary school kids walking home by themselves and having no parents at home with them. Hopefully, parents learn about the dangers by hearing about this and arrange safer methods for after school care.

This is skirting dangerously close to victim blaming. Kids of elementary age walk home from school all the time in many countries. What Japan needs to do is to take sex crimes more seriously and ensure that the law comes down hard on sexual predators. While they're at it, they also need to take a close, hard look at their culture of infantilizing girls and women in media. The "kawaii" culture, prepubescent idols and "pop stars" etc. all serve to feed and fuel certain fantasies that should never been given space to take root in the first place.

Although Japan is safe for children in the main there are those with malintentionné.

Sadly,I’ve heard of reports of stalkers around schools in Japan.

A lot of people in the comments suggesting the death penalty for this guy rather than life in prison. I would suggest just waiting a bit.

In handing down the ruling, which was in line with the prosecutors' demand, Presiding Judge Hiroki Ito said the "mental and physical anguish of the girls is unimaginable," considering how the crime occurred at their home or in nearby areas where they felt safe.

Hats off to Judge Ito for making the right ruling. Life imprisonment is entirely appropriate here.

I pray that his victims find peace and strength. And I pray that the convicted rapist somehow seeks and finds God sometime before he dies.

10 victims ....I would have thought a Police Task force be set up after 2 or 3 victims.

Police probably didnt connect the dots like MO etc., evidence at the scene, DNA...

Offenders like these go on offending until caught....catch them earlier ....

10 girls in a span of 6years, he should have been caught sooner. He is a pedophile serial rapist, he should hang.

He also recorded and stored images of the assaults, some of which were found on his smartphone.

Likely he planned to profit off of his crimes as fellow creeps are into rape porn.

He got let of easy. Should be headed to the gallows.

Likely he planned to profit off of his crimes as fellow creeps are into rape porn.

Rape porn is disgusting. I doubt he was trying to profit from it, but who knows?

How many years is life in prison in Japan?

In the UK, where I am from, life in prison can mean as little as 15 years incarceration whereas a whole life tariff means you’re in jail for the rest of your life.

Droll QuarryToday  08:58 am JST

Hopefully, parents learn about the dangers by hearing about this and arrange safer methods for after school care.

I like the alternative scenario better.... Identify and root out the perpetrators before they act.

you’ve been watching too many sci-fi movies. Pre cogs? And genetic testing? However, if you can, Please let us know how we can pre-find these criminals.

abe....sort of disagree....I doubt his offender "started " raping as a first offence.

Possibly a progression...maybe exposing himself, child porn watcher, someone mothers felt uncomfortable with.

Crime psychologists have examined the "evolution/devolution " of child sex offenders and have identifies the progression from say exposing oneself, to inappropriate touching, approaching children, being near schools.

Many red flags are often seen....sadly in retrospect.

Would be useful to examine this offenders priors.

Australian Institute of Criminology has some interesting reading.

In offenders with a prior criminal history, nearly all actually, convictions for theft was around 80%.

One detail in the article notes meticulous planning and observation of movements before the offence.

Behaviour that would fit in with a house breaker as well.

10 victims too late, the cops got their suspect.

Why would the law allow such animals to live? This is a hang-able offense IMHO. The judge did everything she/he could to protect the society from him, but I feel sorry for the hundreds of million of taxpayer JPY to be wasted on keeping this pig alive.

Someone not doing their job properly?

6 years is a long time, and he kept doing it, again and again! How many time did it take for the police to take this crime seriously?

I am all for death penalty for killing but if you give it for rape, all those criminals would then just end killing their victims at the end of their deeds !

So let that psycho (indeed he is) go to prison with a tag and let mother nature take its course...

could possibly end in his death or at least disfigurement or serious injury. He would be targeted by other prisoners and always at risk of violence

Indeed. No cellmates like Steve Sandison, who "set up appointments with God" for child molesters.

No hard labor, either.

10 count of sexual assaults should be a very serial sex predator who deserves death penalty. Too bad the democratic values let this scumbag alive. Maybe he will get a parole in 15 years later !

@Stewart Gale

There is no whole-life tariff in Japan, only an indeterminate sentence like the one here. The average for this is 31 years.

Assaulting 10 little kids! What a sicko, the best place for this monster is in a deep quarry in the far north of Hokkaido, let him break rocks for the rest of his miserable life, any money earned from breaking tonnes of rock with a sledge hammer, should go to his victims for compassion, I've met several woman over the years that were raped, they all have lots of mental health issues, they all have trust problems, most have had divorces due to anger issues, I've no time or sympathy for him, but with children he's wrecked there inside, they might not be able to grow up and have children of there own, and they have a life sentence of there own , especially dealing with deep phycological issues.

This is a dreadful series of crimes and a life sentence is totally appropriate. He should be made to work and he should be made to understand the full impact of the damage that he’s done. There are also some cultural lessons the country can learn from these and similar crimes.

More importantly I sincerely hope the girls can get the immediate and longer term support they’ll need to get their lives back to some semblance of normality.

This deviant should never set foot outside prison. His soul is darker than pitch and his wickedness has created untold trauma to his poor victims. Vermin like this should have their testicles removed as soon as they enter prison.

Can people top obsessing about testicle removal.

Sex deviancy is brain originated....do YOUR testes think for themselves ?

Rape is about power and control.

Child rape is an epitome of this.

Deserves gallows..

This dangerous person must never be released, stay in your cell up to end of your life.

Tokyoliving, he does not deserve the gallows that is to quick, he needs to understand the term suffering, pain, anguish, trauma, physical abuse, isolation, humiliation, and some more stuff.

GuruMickFeb. 19  12:21 pm JST

abe....sort of disagree....I doubt his offender "started " raping as a first offence.

Possibly a progression...maybe exposing himself, child porn watcher, someone mothers felt uncomfortable with.

Crime psychologists have examined the "evolution/devolution " of child sex offenders and have identifies the progression from say exposing oneself, to inappropriate touching, approaching children, being near schools.

Many red flags are often seen....sadly in retrospect.

Would be useful to examine this offenders priors.

Yes I agree. We don’t have enough information to know that in this case. But not every flasher goes on to commit these crimes. We could say that about anyone, and we’d soon have prisons full of idiots who did something stupid. And at what age to we start to profile these young men. Imagine locking someone up (high schooler) for taking a @&ck pic, wtc These sciences aren’t 100%. And with the human mind and hindsight, we think we see patterns, when nothing is there, therefore incrothe chances of false convictions.

I don’t think can go around pre- convicting people on the assumption they might do something terrible in 10,20,30 years in the future. Most men have seen pornography, but it doesn’t mean all mean will become rapists, or even flashers. Most young teenagers have done shop lifting, and theft but it doesn’t mean we’re going to become thief’s or turn to armed robbery. Or in today’s world recorded something they shouldn’t have. Boys and young men/and women are stupid . I just don’t think we can make stupidity against the law when 99% turn out OK. The science is just a way to try and explain those people but it’s not enough to pre-convict a man. How accurate is it on someone with NO criminal record.

PrinFeb. 19  01:29 pm JST

I am all for death penalty for killing but if you give it for rape, all those criminals would then just end killing their victims at the end of their deeds !

So let that psycho (indeed he is) go to prison with a tag and let mother nature take its course.

Totally spot on! They would leave no witnesses behind. If the end result is the gallows. Your only escape would be to kill the victim, dispose of the body. And take the only chance left.But we are preaching to lynch mob. They can’t see the next victim. They just want to see quick, self satisfying answer that might also save them a few yen. Recently a few men have been convicted of rape, only to be found completely innocent after being in jail for a decade or so, and that’s with the so called victims pressing charges.

i am also against the death penalty for murder as some do get out and change their life around. (Especially in the U.S system) and some have been exonerated.