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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BigP
Disgusting individuals! Hang them.
proxy
Neuter them.
Asiaman7
Absolutely horrific crime, if the allegations are true.
And in that case, society would most certainly benefit from the removal of these men.
Gaijinjland
For once a “hang them” comment is actually justified.
wallace
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?
Aly Rustom
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.
NOMINATION
Name, shame and public execution would be the correct punishment.
Speed
Jesus
obladi
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.
WoodyLee
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 .
Fighto!
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.
WoodyLee
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.
V Campbell
Death penalty, please.
Legrande
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.
TokyoLiving
Deserve death penalty..
TokyoLiving
Still safe for everyone..
Like it or not..
Japantime
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.
purple_depressed_bacon
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.
GuruMick
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.
Lindsay
Shouldn’t the girls also be taken into custody? Protective custody, of course.
Mocheake
How horrific. If found guilty, there's only one fitting punishment and that's the gallows. Poor girls.
dmhondz
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.
GuruMick
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.
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 criminals
falseflagsteve
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.
GuruMick
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.
GuruMick
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.
iron man
mmh, sure they need to hang. They do unbelievable acts (???) an use the web to communicate. E.T. come home please.
grc
WoodyLee - I am sorry you have been downvoted
Aly Rustom
Um- how do you know all this??
Mirai Hayashi
castration now!
Deo Gratias
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.
Chico3
That goes way beyond disgusting. Just the act in itself is inhumane and disgusting.
Cephus
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.
falseflagsteve
I agree with Deo, making porn illegal would go a long way to solving this.
Gaijinjland
Steve, nobody goes from watching commercial porn on porhub to doing this…
owzer
people might stop taking VIDEOS of it, but I don’t think it would solve the underlying problem.
wallace
Porn is not responsbile for these dreadful crimes which have existed for thousands of years even before publishing was available.
purple_depressed_bacon
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.
1glenn
I can't imagine that this news article is false, but it is hard to imagine that it is true. Horrific.
nandakandamanda
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.
GuruMick
Deo Gratis..."ban porn "...OK ...since when did banning anything result in its disappearance ?
Zaphod
Wow, that is so sick. If they got a medieval punishment I would not mind one bit.
Aly Rustom
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