Police in Sapporo, Hokkaido, have arrested a 25-year-old man on suspicion of assault after he allegedly beat up his girlfriend who is in her late teens.
According to police, the suspect, who is a construction worker, assaulted his girlfriend by punching her in the face at their home in Shiroishi Ward at around 8:05 a.m. on January 23, Kyodo News reported. The victim sustained minor injuries, including bruises to her face.
The suspect called police several hours after the incident and asked if his girlfriend had contacted them because she was missing.
Later that day, the teenager returned home, and was questioned by police, but her boyfriend was nowhere to be found. He turned himself in at a police station on Tuesday.
Police said it was the third time he had been arrested for assaulting his girlfriend. But no charges were filed either time.
© Japan Today
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Sanjinosebleed
I can never understand why women stay with these mutts!
Spidey
And you probably never will until you have walked a mile in their shoes.
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Blattamexiguus
Are the police waiting till he kills her before charging him?
3 times and no charges? WTF?
kurisupisu
What’s wrong with the ineffective cops that don’t apply the law in Hokkaido?
Speed
Violence in Hokkaido again??
Jay
The title and wording in the article is so weird. "Teenage girlfriend"? "Late teens"? So.... she was 18 or 19, aka a university student.
Why is the writer using wording that makes it seem like a dude in his 20s is dating a 14 year old?
shogun36
idiot……well, until she presses charges, there’s nothing anyone else can do. It’s not gonna end well for either one of them.
Jind
I can never understand why women stay with these mutts!
For adults relationship, it could be what's called Co-Dependency.
In this case, she is in her teens and maybe not be major enough to understand the relationship. Also, there may be threats if she reported him.
There may have been many more instances of violence that had not been reported.
リッチ
agree. Why was the dude not arrested the first time? Late teens? 19? Kind of sensational headline.
masterblaster
I'm not sure about the laws in Japan, but in my home country depending on the seriousness of the assault, being charged is up to the victim. The victim can refuse to press charges thus the jerk goes free. Many victims are reluctant to press charges because the punishment isn't that long in jail. When the jerk gets out he comes back with vengeance for the victim.
This could be the case. She might be very scared to press charges or leave him. If she's a teen and in this situation it seems her parents aren't helping her. He is probably controlling the money. too.
A sad situation.
Yharnam Resident
First red flag should've been a 25 year old trying to date someone in their teens. Weirdo.
John-San
The age of consent is 16 in Japan not so weird, seeing USA is 16 unlike Israel age of consent is 14 which is Pedos territory
Paul
I once stopped a man from beating his girlfriend in London. Then she started screaming at me that he does it because he loves her! Never again will I lift a finger to help again!!!
wallace
The age of consent is 16 but not when the male is 25 years.
OssanAmerica
The age of consent is not dependent on the age of the male.
wallace
The new laws formulated by the Japan Parliament also noted that juvenile couples with an age gap of less than or up to five years will not be prosecuted if both partners are above 13 years of age.
The reform on the national level comes even though many regional centres have banned “obscene acts" with minors and effectively raised the age of consent to 18.
smithinjapan
"Police said it was the third time he had been arrested for assaulting his girlfriend. But no charges were filed either time."
You see? They wait for a corpse before doing anything. They going to charge him this time?
Redemption
Poor woman.
opheliajadefeldt
If this was the third time this cowardly thug had been arrested for assaulting a very young woman, I dread to think of her future if she does not stay away from him.