Man arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting sleeping elementary school girl

Some things are just to gross to think about. That poor little girl was sleeping. Well, here is where a long, long prison term is a good thing. Only add the every time this fella takes a nap one of his cell mates. . .

Kanno or Sugano? Probably Kanno, but JT might want to make it consistent.

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sicko.........lock him up and toss the way the key

Why was the girl left alone and why was a balcony window left unlocked?

A very serious and nasty offense.

Police said Kanno was identified after an analysis of street surveillance camera footage taken outside the apartment building.

Those amazing street surveillance cameras again. Or is this police code for something else?

Thats a pretty horrific story. I cant imagine how traumatised that might leave the poor girl, violated in the safety of her own bed.

My sister-in-law was 7 years old and on the way home from school in Tokyo, when a man grabbed her, led her to some trees pulled down her underwear and .. it's too graphic to continue. She never told anyone unlit she was in her 30's and has had trouble trusting and developing relationships with men her whole life due to this trauma.

All parents in Japan, do not believe the myth of 'safety Japan' and let your children be alone in public because you might never know something has happened to your child.

Why was the girl left alone and why was a balcony window left unlocked?

Children of upper elementary grade are considered responsible enough to be left alone for some periods of time, unfortunately Japanese families are too used to a high degree of safety and precautions that would be basic common sense in other countries are not considered necessary here.

virusrexToday  04:00 pm JST

Why was the girl left alone and why was a balcony window left unlocked?

Children of upper elementary grade are considered responsible enough to be left alone for some periods of time, unfortunately Japanese families are too used to a high degree of safety and precautions that would be basic common sense in other countries are not considered necessary here.

I've never understood the belief among parents in Japan that their kids are completely safe. Children in Japan are kidnapped, sexually assaulted, murdered, or hit by cars just as often as in other developed countries, yet there's this idea that these things don't happen, so it's okay to let kids walk home alone or be unsupervised. It feels like people have been lulled into this false sense of safety that, to me, has never really existed.

Japan seems to suffer from a dangerous normalcy bias, and it makes me sad when tragedies happen that could have been avoided if parents were more aware of the risks their kids face.

virusrex

Why was the girl left alone and why was a balcony window left unlocked?

Children of upper elementary grade are considered responsible enough to be left alone for some periods of time, unfortunately Japanese families are too used to a high degree of safety and precautions that would be basic common sense in other countries are not considered necessary here.

I disagree. There is not only the problem of intrusion as in this case but also the problem of fires, and the child needing medical attention.

The article does not state the age of the girl so you are guessing.

kanno told them he doesn't know the girl or her family

but he knew enough about them to know that the mother was out, the child was home alone with no father around, and a window would be left open.

perverts like this don't just get lucky...

he'd been stalking them for some time!!

I've never understood the belief among parents in Japan that their kids are completely safe.

Nobody is ever completely safe, no matter what age, what parents believe according to experience and culture is that childre of certain age know the risks of being alone to the point of being in risk to a degree similar to adults. The fact is that events like this don't happen except on very rare cases, so saying this should mean a change of conduct would require the same about other things with similar risks, like walking (with adults) close to a busy street or riding a bus. There is of course lack of proper evaluation of risk for some things, but there is also the opposite case, where exceptional events are taken as a basis for behaving differently as if this was a routine thing.

I disagree. There is not only the problem of intrusion as in this case but also the problem of fires, and the child needing medical attention.

A 6th year is normally perfectly able to leave his place of residence in case of a disaster, and call their parents or another responsible adult in case of feeling bad. Their risk would not be that much different from a child of secondary or high school level.

The article does not state the age of the girl so you are guessing.

I am rising a perfectly valid possibility, there would be nothing specially wrong with leaving a 12yo alone for a couple of hours, guessing also applies to thinking this was a very long period of time or that it was a very young child is also guessing.

he'd been stalking them for some time!!

Or he could have just looking at people leaving their houses, wait for a time to check no other activity and try to enter the house that is likely empty until he got lucky once. Perverts get lucky all the time, try a door or a veranda a few dozen times until one is open and a victim inside. A closed door or no victim? leave without problems to try another time in a different place.

virusrex

A 6th year is normally perfectly able to leave his place of residence in case of a disaster, and call their parents or another responsible adult in case of feeling bad. Their risk would not be that much different from a child of secondary or high school level.

That all depends on the degree of the disaster. There is no mention in the article about the girl's age.

I am rising a perfectly valid possibility, there would be nothing specially wrong with leaving a 12yo alone for a couple of hours, guessing also applies to thinking this was a very long period of time or that it was a very young child is also guessing.

You do not know the age of the girl which could be 6-12 years. We don't know how long the girl was left alone or where the mother went.

Most child advice is not to leave children under 12 alone.

wistful sigh

perverts get lucky all the time, try a door or a veranda a few dozen times until one is open and a victim inside

wrong! perverts and predators pick on people weaker than themselves. a pervert would not take the risk that there would be a man inside...

ready to claim self-defence!!

That all depends on the degree of the disaster. There is no mention in the article about the girl's age.

A much older person can also fail to survive a disaster that is big enough, that is not an argument against leaving children of a certain age alone for some time without any significant risk. And since there is no mention about the age you can't dismiss the realistic possibility of it being of higher elementary grade that would make this not a problem.

You do not know the age of the girl which could be 6-12 years. We don't know how long the girl was left alone or where the mother went.

Exactly, so if your point completely depends on assuming both things then it is not valid, it definetely can be an older girl left alone for a few hours and that would make the situation reasonable.

wrong! perverts and predators pick on people weaker than themselves. a pervert would not take the risk that there would be a man inside... 

Not wrong, the situation explained clearly depends on the criminal to find a victim, that means someone he can overpower. It is relatively easy to wait for a while to see there is no activity before entering the house and if there is an adult (that again is not active, likely sleeping) that he could not dominate simply leave. If nobody noticed the invasion he could repeat the action elsewhere until finding a victim without any need for stalking.