Miyazaki Prefectural Police have indicted a male police officer in his 20s on suspicion of violating the Child Prostitution and Pornography Prohibition Act by taking nude photos of a girl under the age of 18, whom he was dating.
The officer, who is assigned to Nobeoka Police Station, was also charged with causing property damage after he crashed his car into a wall in a parking lot and didn’t report it for five days in November, NTV reported.
Police said the officer is alleged to have taken photos of the girl over a dozen times with his smartphone between July and October 2023.
After he reported the accident with his car, police inspected his smartphone and discovered that he had taken photos of his girlfriend naked.
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Sam Watters
Unless there is more information not being shared, this seems like an overreach. The girl is 18 (age of consent is 16 since last year) and they seem to be in a mutual relationship.
sakurasuki
To protect and to serve? Really?
dbsaiya
Name? Any other Joe Blow would have his name plastered all over the news.
owzer
Pretty dumb not locking those photos up!!
shogun36
Sounds like a great resume.
Typical for a J-Cop, bur needs a B&E or robbery/embezzlement charge before he can get a promotion.
Who's the joker that hired him in the first place?
Jonathan Prin
I pass. He still reported, and injured nor did not do wrong to anyone, as far as the article can tell.
What is the connection between a car crash and investigation into onés keitai ? Violation of privacy in that case.
Paul Novax
Girl could have been 17, cop could have been 21.
Harry_Gatto
Unless there is more to this case I would welcome a view from a real lawyer as to the legality or otherwise of this. Can they do this to anyone or only police officers? If I have an accident in my car and report it, will the police force me to open my phone?
Nibek32
Why would you need to turn over your cell phone to the police for a car accident?
Harry_Gatto
Only one reason I can think of is that if you were involved in a moving vehicle accident, they would want to check to see if you were using your phone at the time.
Garthgoyle
Why would they check his phone for crashing a car?
And if he's a cop, he should have known better to not take nudes of his girlfriend.
grc
How shocking
Brian Wheway
There are plenty of car accidents every day, ok so he didn't report it, I can't see why he should had over his phone for possibly investigation, and then they discover nude pics, were the nude pictures from the inside the car? If someone has had an accident, just fill out the forms, I don't get it, unless there is something extra that we don't know about
virusrex
Which is completely wrong and also completely illegal.
It seems quite strange you think this hypothetical situation would have any importance.
puregaijin
indeed. very good reasoning, and that got me thinking it could be the same for this particular incident. i.e. using your phone while parking.