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Police arrest several men for alleged sexual assault of their daughters

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Japanese media reported this week that police have arrested several men accused of sexual assault of their underaged daughters and sharing their abuse videos online.

Police have so far refused to confirm the reports.

Kyodo News agency, NHK television and other outlets say police in the Aichi prefecture, a region in central Japan, took into custody several men, who are in their 30s, 40s and 50s.

They are accused of repeatedly raping their daughters or stepdaughters, aged 6-14, filming the scenes of the assaults and sharing the videos on social media. They are also accused of child prostitution and child pornography, the reports said.

They allegedly exchanged messages and footage of their attacks in a group chat. The group was uncovered after one of the men was arrested in November on accusations of raping a child. Police investigated the data on his mobile phone, which led to the arrest of the other men, reports said.

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Disgusting individuals! Hang them.

14 ( +22 / -8 )

Neuter them.

18 ( +24 / -6 )

Absolutely horrific crime, if the allegations are true.

And in that case, society would most certainly benefit from the removal of these men.

17 ( +21 / -4 )

For once a “hang them” comment is actually justified.

15 ( +23 / -8 )

The authorities need to come down heavy on these rapists and pimping their child daughters to pedophiles. Where was their love for their very young daughters. What did their mothers know about this sexual cruelty?

18 ( +19 / -1 )

This is beyond horrific.

I never thought I would be reading The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade in the actual news. Never.

Although I don't believe in the death penalty, I wouldn't feel bad if they got it. At the very least they should get life in prison.

7 ( +10 / -3 )

Name, shame and public execution would be the correct punishment.

8 ( +15 / -7 )

Jesus

5 ( +7 / -2 )

I think it's more common than these few guys. I don't know how you stop it, since this kind of thing has been happening, in one form or another, throughout history. My heart goes out to the Children. I hope that they will find loving safe families after this ordeal.

13 ( +14 / -1 )

Sick, Sick, Sick.

So much for saying Japan is a safe place to raise children, these animals should be locked up for at least 25 years so others won't even consider .

-4 ( +8 / -12 )

All these child-raping scum should be hung. None of this 5-10 year sentence rubbish - get rid of them once and for all.

I just hope the poor abused girls can one day live happy lives.

5 ( +10 / -5 )

RAPE constitutes Death in many parts of the world, and this is why.

Some nations or cultures will not only kill the rapist but will torture them by stone throwing or Lashing to death.

6 ( +10 / -4 )

Death penalty, please.

5 ( +10 / -5 )

 They are also accused of child prostitution and child pornography, the reports said.

Young Japanese (and other) men are socialized via porn and develop a sick interest in such things.

-2 ( +7 / -9 )

Deserve death penalty..

-1 ( +5 / -6 )

So much for saying Japan is a safe place to raise children

Still safe for everyone..

Like it or not..

-11 ( +5 / -16 )

Very common around the world. Not only in Japan. There are many videos on the dark web and even regular websites which contain this material. Most people have probably seen it by accident when watching porn on their smart phones.

-8 ( +1 / -9 )

Anybody who opposes the desth penalty should be referred to this case along with many other horrifically similar ones. If you commit an act as vile and atrocious as this, you rescind your right to see the next light of day.

2 ( +6 / -4 )

I would want the Police to use these individuals to uncover information on who was purchasing the videos and what platform was allowing this.

Should be some sort of money trail to find others .

Child sex abuse always a common offence even before the age of the internet.

As seen here, more common in family than the "stranger danger " notion.

I'll leave questions of sentencing to the Japanese Courts, but imagine time imposed would be lengthy.

3 ( +4 / -1 )

Shouldn’t the girls also be taken into custody? Protective custody, of course.

5 ( +5 / -0 )

How horrific. If found guilty, there's only one fitting punishment and that's the gallows. Poor girls.

-2 ( +2 / -4 )

Disgusting, sick men. Hoping none gets suspended sentence only because they did it on their own blood and showed remorse. They need to be locked up permanently.

3 ( +3 / -0 )

Cant see "inflation " being a factor in these offences.

Issues of deviancy, power, proximity to victim , money making etc.

Don't diminish the level of the crime with exculpatory excuses.

Japan needs a campaign similar to what Australia had.

The "slogan " was "No excuses...never...ever "....

Being public about this abhorrent deviancy may serve to empower victims and /or their friends to report abuse.

In Australia it is now mandatory to report suspicions or accounts of child sex abuse to Police if employed as a teacher, social worker and a range of other jobs.

2 ( +4 / -2 )

Scheme to make $money in the 'dark-web', sick stuff indeed, but times have changed in Japan due to Yen losing +80% of its real asset purchasing power since 2020, people are desperate, hence these low life criminals

-6 ( +2 / -8 )

There is a lot of this about as I have mentioned many times. This needed to be tackled and right now. First is to make random device checks on all those who choose to work with children. Teachers and especially those who work at kindergartens need to be looked into. Paedophiles choose to gain easy access to their victims. These beastly men did within their families but thinks how many potential victims are at schools and nursery’s.

We must protect the innocents.

-6 ( +1 / -7 )

Steve....this happens within families WAY MORE than outside agencies.

It is a function of power over victim, access, grooming ,normalisation of abuse .

As you see in this offence, the abuse happened within the family circle.

6 ( +6 / -0 )

Hope...please believe me when I say this....a falling yen or inflation are not on the radar in these types of offences.

In poverty stricken slums of the Phillipines , desperation may be a factor...not in Japan.

3 ( +3 / -0 )

mmh, sure they need to hang. They do unbelievable acts (???) an use the web to communicate. E.T. come home please.

0 ( +2 / -2 )

WoodyLee - I am sorry you have been downvoted

-4 ( +1 / -5 )

Very common around the world. Not only in Japan. There are many videos on the dark web and even regular websites which contain this material. Most people have probably seen it by accident when watching porn on their smart phones.

Um- how do you know all this??

-1 ( +2 / -3 )

castration now!

-2 ( +2 / -4 )

Japantime Today  09:22 am JST

Very common around the world. Not only in Japan. There are many videos on the dark web and even regular websites which contain this material. Most people have probably seen it by accident when watching porn on their smart phones.

All the more reason to ban porn.

No, porn is not free speech.

It is nothing more than a gateway to sexual exploitation, human trafficking, destroyed marriages and families, and even rape and child molestation.

It's prostitution -- the only difference being that the viewer, rather than the physical participant, is paying for it.

As such, it should be illegalized. Everywhere.

-6 ( +1 / -7 )

That goes way beyond disgusting. Just the act in itself is inhumane and disgusting.

5 ( +5 / -0 )

HopeSpringsEternal

"Scheme to make $money in the 'dark-web', sick stuff indeed, but times have changed in Japan due to Yen losing +80% of its real asset purchasing power since 2020, people are desperate, hence these low life criminal."

Even though the yen have lost its real asset purchasing power, these low life criminals should not be allowed any chance to exploit their children or the dark web for cash. After all if it's own father's abusing this children then who will protect them because their mothers have already failed them.

-2 ( +0 / -2 )

I agree with Deo, making porn illegal would go a long way to solving this.

-7 ( +1 / -8 )

Steve, nobody goes from watching commercial porn on porhub to doing this…

4 ( +4 / -0 )

I agree with Deo, making porn illegal would go a long way to solving this.

people might stop taking VIDEOS of it, but I don’t think it would solve the underlying problem.

1 ( +2 / -1 )

Porn is not responsbile for these dreadful crimes which have existed for thousands of years even before publishing was available.

7 ( +7 / -0 )

Very common around the world. Not only in Japan. There are many videos on the dark web and even regular websites which contain this material. Most people have probably seen it by accident when watching porn on their smart phones.

> Um- how do you know all this??

Thr Dark Web is common knowledge; most people are aware that there are three levels to the Web, with the Dark Web being the most hidden level. If you watch true crime documentaries, especially regarding cases involving child abuse, the Dark Web comes up a lot. I learned things about the Dark Web in regards to child sexual abuse from documentaries that I wish I could bleach from my brain.

3 ( +3 / -0 )

I can't imagine that this news article is false, but it is hard to imagine that it is true. Horrific.

2 ( +2 / -0 )

If they are found guilty, I hope the government will use this case to raise the profile of this kind of problem in public; and I hope that somehow they can introduce education for children and spouses to be able to understand and report such abuse, in the safe and certain knowledge that the authorities will take them seriously.

1 ( +1 / -0 )

Deo Gratis..."ban porn "...OK ...since when did banning anything result in its disappearance ?

3 ( +3 / -0 )

Wow, that is so sick. If they got a medieval punishment I would not mind one bit.

0 ( +1 / -1 )

Thr Dark Web is common knowledge; most people are aware that there are three levels to the Web, with the Dark Web being the most hidden level. If you watch true crime documentaries, especially regarding cases involving child abuse, the Dark Web comes up a lot. I learned things about the Dark Web in regards to child sexual abuse from documentaries that I wish I could bleach from my brain.

I'm aware of that. But the poster to whom I was referring to seemed to know a lot more than what is common knowledge

0 ( +0 / -0 )

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