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.
Hello Kitty 321
@ Sam Watters
It is because he took photographs. The law he broke is "Regulation and Punishment of Acts Relating to Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, and the Protection of Children Act" and the term "Child" as used in this Act means "a person under 18 years of age."
Shimo-chan
What does a car accident have to do with the photos on his phone?
Even if there were numerous nude photos on the phone, was it really necessary to investigate them?
Paul Novax
Oh, you're discussing a different issue. Well, it is your opinion it is completely wrong.
It is very strange you have misplaced your post as you are commenting on somethng that has not been made an issue.
virusrex
One, it is not a different issue but the one being reported.
Two, it is not an opinion, it is objectively wrong and criminal.
Three, when you fail to produce any argument or evidence of this being wrong that means it is not, you just make that claim without any support.
Your quoted comment obviously did, else you are just commenting random things without any importance (which is worse) obviously you thought this would change the situation, it does not.
falseflagsteve
An evil man no doubt addicted to vile online pornography. Remove him from society to make the country safer for vulnerable young women.
GuruMick
Steve...are you familiar with the quote from Hamlet
"Methinks she doth protest too much ".
Think about it...
GuruMick
Steve...young people send "nude selfies " to each other.
Its a thing...
Garthgoyle
false Steve
What makes you think this person is evil and how do you know he's addicted to online pornography?
And by removing from society, what exactly do you mean and why? What's that horrific crime he has committed that deserves to a life sentence?
virusrez
It's not strange at all to ask about information that was left out the article (maybe on purpose) and it does indeed have importance.
falseflagsteve
Guru
His actions show he is a sick perverted mentalist
Gargoyle
His type who would take nudey pics and keep on his phone is a prime example of what I stated. He indulged in. Sexual relations with an underage girl, a child. He took photos and we often hear about these types using the pics for blackmail purposes.
He is n older man, a public servant who must be punished accordingly and removed from society to protect vulnerable children. A lengthy prison term is required.
Jimizo
He is clearly disturbed.
I’d check his social media activity. I can imagine it’s really weird.
Sam Watters
@HelloKitty321. Thank you for the clarification. I was not aware of that law.
GuruMick
Steve ..."he is an older man "...well, he is in his 20,s...he could be 21 .
How old was the girl ? She is not a "child " BTW...probably old enough to leave school and work.
Did she send the nude pics to him ....not uncommon.
It is a salacious little tid bit of a story , pushing the buttons of the righteous moral crusaders on this forum...but to me is just something young people do these days.
Maybe they were having sex too !!!!!
No...too much to process...
GuruMick
Steve...what on earth is a "mentalist " ?
Blitzwing
Wonder how young the girl is.
If the pictures made them believe she was underage, she probably wasn't 16 or 17.
virusrex
It is against the law, something a police officer has no excuse of doing, breaking the law on something this serious is not something young people just do, justifying it says more about yourself than about the merits of the article.
The police don't have to investigate things just because they believe things. Finding nudes they can interrogate the criminal about the identity of the subject and easily find out it is underage.