Police in Tokyo have arrested an unemployed 36-year-old man for kidnapping and sexually molesting a four-year-old girl in a department store toilet.
According to police, the incident occurred in Tobu Department Store at Ikebukuro Station at around 2:30 p.m. on July 6, Fuji TV reported. Police said the suspect, Taro Sato, approached the girl, who had come to the store with her mother, while she had wandered off to the toy section. The mother said she had taken her eyes off her daughter for only a few minutes while she was shopping.
Police said Sato lured the girl to the toilet by suggesting, “Why don’t we go look for your mother?” Sato then took the girl into the men's toilet and sexually molested her for 10 minutes and left her outside the toilet where her mother and department store staff found her.
The girl told her mother what happened and the mother contacted police. Sato was arrested after store security camera footage showed him taking the girl into the toilet.
Police said Sato has admitted to the charge and quoted him as saying, “I am attracted to women and like to touch them. However, I dislike adult women because they would not like what I want to do, so I picked a young girl."
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Peter Qinghai
Chemical castration
Aly Rustom
only in Japan would someone give a reason like that....
sado001
Psychotic SOB. This guy deserves the death penalty.
Monozuki
Haha. You have completely the wrong idea. Mind you, young girls would not like what you want to do, either. :‑(
igloobuyer
Truly heartbreaking. What could be a more horrible thing to do to a small child - she must have been terrified. I have no anger towards the perpetrator but he must be put in prison and given intensive rehabilitation and never be allowed within 5 meters of small children.
A Japanese friend of mine was molested in a public park meters from her home when she was 6 years old (he pulled down her pants and used his tongue). I am convinced there is a serious unspoken problem of child sexual abuse in Japan.
bones
Now I know many people live in this aura of that will never happen in a country so safe as japan,but it boggles the mind that parents take their attention away from children,children can vanish in mere seconds,now with creeps like this guy lurking all over will this make parents that more attentive to their children? I sure hope so. As for the sicko,I think some of Japan's Draconian forms of punishment to be re-instituted for special individuals like mr Sato. If this was some parts of the U S,he would meet his fate in a holding cell.
Alistair Carnell
“I am attracted to women. However, I dislike adult women because they would not like what I want to do, so I picked a young girl.”
I highly doubt a young girl would like it either. Where's the sexual offenders register here ?
This creep should be tagged, de-knackered, and kept well away from kids for the rest of his natural.
sado001
A creepy, unemployed, 36 year old pedophile maniac. By his confession, this isn't his first time. Oh Japan..
nath
Could I get ten minutes alone with him? I think there is a cure for pedophilia. We could turn him "gay". It might work... might not work... and we could have fun trying!
Disillusioned
Just this morning a guy about the same age as this predator was standing in front of me on the train playing a game on his phone that had very young girls in it. I'm not sure what the point of the game was, but I wanted to slap him in the head anyway. This deviant attraction to young girls is an illness that is present in many Japanese men. I saw another guy on the train the other day who was in his mid-50's and flicking through photos of junior high school girls from a website on his phone.
And, a note to the mother, this is why you never let your little kids run around a department store by themselves. It's a sad and ugly part of today's society that there are many sick sexual predators just waiting for a chance at an unattended child. She should think herself lucky the child is not dead!
sado001
These are results of rampant kiddie porn in Japan. You could literally buy mangas of little girls having sex to games that are focused on young girls. And they don't wonder why pedophilia in Japan is high..
Aly Rustom
That's what Japan is missing.
I have said that to Japanese people before a million times til I was blue in the face. The response has been identical to almost be like a rehearsed line:
Its Japanese culture.
Well here you are. You reap what you sow.
Then he would probably molest a little boy.
SamuelLopez
Disturbing. How many more times does this need to happen before the Japanese address their serious pedophilia problem? sado001 is absolutely right, japan is probably the child porn capital of the world and probably has the highest child molestation rates of any industrialized nation. Pedophiles like these are absolute cowards who prey on those who cannot defend themselves so it wouldn't take much to scare them off ever molesting a child. In my country, they would get dragged out into the streets, beaten, mutilated and then killed. The police would be too scared to prevent it as they would have to face the wrath of the public. I'm not saying this is what the Japanese should do, but I'm just saying more fear needs to be put into these sickos minds.
Bald Since Birth
Wow! So brazen and in full day light! The media defends the right to publish simulated child porn manga as its a form of expression! They make excuses to sell life like child sex dolls because they say it will deter men from actually commiting the crime. The law enforcers need to punish these people with harsher penalties!!!
SenseNotSoCommon
Speechless.
pudus
and you know whats really creepy, if a foreigner were to intervene in such despicable acts, the clodhoppers, would probably do like Disillusioned mentioned many times before: " stay out of Japanese business; a sickness within itself.
fuzzylogic
The moral social conscience in the country is in dire need to be raised.
Wc626
If there were such a datbase kept by the NPA, it would've crashed overload by now. Worse, many offenders from actual ranks of Police Officers.
Thats a long time. The little girl should've screamed.
WilliB
What???? This makes my skin crawl
clamenza
igloobuyer - Thanks for that very unnecessary and creepy description. Now please excuse me while I go take a shower.
commanteer
Hardly rampant, thought there is a lot of borderline porn. Still, the question remains about how much it affects actual behavior.
From the USA - "Adult retrospective studies show that 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men were sexually abused before the age of 18. This means there are more than 42 million adult survivors of child sexual abuse in the US"
And even worse in the UK, apparently. It seems that the lack of porn has not helped a whit in these countries.
The statistics show both countries to be far worse than Japan, though the statistics in this area are very unreliable. Anecdotally, I know several Americans who were molested as children. Japanese are less likely to admit such things, but I have rarely heard of it here. I think the answer in both countries is the society, and is rather more complicated than just blaming manga porn.
Brian Wheway
As Ive said so many times before, Japan need a sex offenders register .....NOW! and it needs to cover ALL of japan on a police data base to keep track of said offenders. it won't be perfect but it will be a start to protect children.
drlucifer
It can still have a register and what good would be the register if crimes are not entered into it for fear of spoiling all the hard work done over the years instilling into our little minds that Japan is the safest country in the world.
commanteer
Very few 4 year olds would be able too scream in such a circumstance. Even if you teach a girl that age to scream, few would actually be able to do it.
sir_bentley28
The things I want to freely say about this...........person would get me banned from this site INDEFINETELY! My word......these people don't fall through cracks, they get swallowed into the sinkhole that no one is willing to look into!