Woman held for forcing daughter and her friend into prostitution

"acquainted with through a cell phone dating site"

gee, 1 down 100,000 to go or more.

compensated dating...? only the Japanese!

ps, that kid is ruined.

hah..J obasan would do anything for a living...

What is Japan coming to when the police start harrassing unemployed people engaged in lawful business? I thought the cops were into this sort of thing?

ps, that kid is ruined.

The scenario is certainly not nice and very potentially scarring. But your post is presumptive in the extreme. Ruined? You have only your Hollywood inspired imagination to make that claim.

Back to the article: I have difficulty imagining how the woman could force this. Did she threaten, cajole, blackmail, what?

And the "customers"? What the heck were they thinking? Were there no signs that she was forced that they could have noticed?

Can we simply hang her by her nails? Why did nail pulling go out of style anyway? I say one nail per offense (per john that she made these "kids" sleep with)!

...also, I am guessing that one of the johns called the police!

Saddly, this is not an isolated incident.

10 million yen?! Talk about a lucrative business.

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hah..J obasan would do anything for a living...

No. THIS particular obasan apparently would do anything for a living. I know countless Japanese women who are smart, kind, respectable, and decent human beings. To lump them all in with the woman in the above story is insulting and ignorant.

I have difficulty imagining how the woman could force this. Did she threaten, cajole, blackmail, what?

I imagine being a 15-year old girl alone in a hotel room with three strange men and a mother who is not only unwilling to protect her own daughter, but actually openly facilitating the transaction, might be a scary enough situation for the girls to feel compelled to something they might otherwise not want to do.

LFRAgain - really? where did you meet them? that's not my experience.

10 million yen in the process

Wow....Roughly $100,000, where can we sign up for one of these part-time jobs...?

LFRAgain: how lucky you are!...omedeto! i get to meet only the bitchy ones....poor me....:(

It is paid for the sex but the men are disgusting.

I saw the word suspected. Not guilty. And we don't know if the 10 million is hard evidence or only suspected as well. If it's evidence it still doesn't make her guilty yet. I really like how the JT crowd has the mob mentality when a japanese person is suspected of something but give a gaijin the benefit of the doubt unless of course he's a US Military member. Pathetic.

likeitis when did you get mean? Sorry man... Poor choice of wording here. How about traumatized or damaged. I dont know man... a HS girl (Japanese=younger) and who knows what was done by these guys in a hotel room and a mutha pimp collecting... 100 grand is a lot of trauma at least to me... I get ads in my mailbox at 8000 yen an hour or 70 bucks.

How about traumatized or damaged.

There is a good chance of that, yes. But still not guaranteed. It too often happens that a person becomes that way simply because we expect it. I have seen kids bang their heads hard, but if you act like nothing happened, half the time, they go on like nothing happened. Run to them expecting tears, and you will get tears almost all the time.

The girls deserve our sympathy. They do not need our assumptions.

I think a suspended sentence is in order

I imagine being a 15-year old girl alone in a hotel room with three strange men and a mother who is not only unwilling to protect her own daughter, but actually openly facilitating the transaction, might be a scary enough situation for the girls to feel compelled to something they might otherwise not want to do.

While that would certainly do it, if that is the way it went down, it would make the guys far more heinous than I imagined from the article. It would seriously increase the chances of them being aware of the force used, and even indicate that they too used force. If so, they are even worse than the woman, and I hope they get as done by the law as they can get.

likeitis spot on above.

10 Million divided by 20000 (estimated) gives 500 times. If it is for one year, this means, her poor daughter had to provide service more than once a day each day. So the police should be able to find enough evidence.

Another example of anomie resulting in seemingly bad behavior as viewed by the rest of "society".

I still think that the root of these problems are with Japanese society. The sexualization of young girls here is everywhere.

How may Oyaji do you see on trains every day with magazines full of photos of HS girls in uniforms? Or manga showing them attacked by old dirty guys?

Then add to that scenes like the 30 and 40 year old guys piling up around the 15-16 year old girls performing in Akihabara.

If my 30something year old friend was head over heels a fan of a 15 year old kid and going nuts over them I would refer him to a shrink to get some help.

Japan needs to roll back the sexualization of children and show people here that is it NO OK TO TURN CHILDREN INTO SEX OBJECTS. Got it?

What posesses these people to do these thing? It is disgusting. If it happened in the old days , she would have been hung as a detterrent to others. This daughter and friend now has themselevs shamed forever, they will have to move houses because evryone will call them slags and bully them and that.

I still think that the root of these problems are with Japanese society. The sexualization of young girls here is everywhere.

Okay, so explain to me why countries that go overboard trying not to sexualize young females has similar problems. Even as bad as this is, I cannot say that worse does not happen in such places with even more frequency.

I think you are doing a lot more imagining than fact checking.

If so, they are even worse than the woman, and I hope they get as done by the law as they can get.

I agree.

But as you suggested, whether or not that's how things actually went down is still an unknown. For all we know, the mother may be telling the truth in suggesting that the two girls were already into, ahem, "compensated dating" and that she tried to get her daughter to stop. But then again, I'm not sure I buy that either.

But from a Japanese article I found, it seems the daughter ran to the police for help in August of last year. It also appears the father was nabbed by the police for child negligence as well. Additionally, the three "dates," all 36-year old "company men" from Yokohama, deny that any prostitution was involved. They don't deny having sex with the girls, mind you, but they maintain that the tryst wasn't prostitution.

Maybe mom is just as morally devoid as I first thought.

All I can say is, that the charges are pretty hideous. If true, I sincerely hope they put her away for a long time, though of course likely will just get the usual. A suspended sentence.

They don't deny having sex with the girls, mind you, but they maintain that the tryst wasn't prostitution.

Maybe they only paid the mom for the "introduction"? Or thought paying the mom did not count?

Wasn't this story poublished last year or is that new one. What a mother is that? She should ne placed into 'mental institution' to reverse her marbles, if she had any left in the wrong position. 'IS JAPAN IMPROVING SEXISM OR ARE SUCH PEOPLE HELPING TO IMPROVE STRAGLING ECONOMY?'

I'm a bit worried about the word "forcing." Very hard to show. Do they mean "coercing" or "encouraging" or maybe "pressuring" or "compelling"?

meanmutha: So Japan is the only country that has prostitution? You really need to get out more man...

Teens engaged in Prostitution a Japan problem... UMMMMMMMMMMMMM you really need to get out more

Japan being the only country where people meet online / dating site... HELLO!!! stop reading the news online and step out into the real world....

p.s.

Read post #1

Compensated dating is essentially the definition of escort services. Like fusedentropy said it's definitely not just a Japanese thing and pimping out your child sadly seems a common act committed deadbeat parents throughout the world.

"being the only country where people meet online / dating site... HELLO!!! stop reading the news online and step out into the real world"

Am I the only one who sees the irony in this statement?

Maybe they only paid the mom for the "introduction"? Or thought paying the mom did not count?

That's a possibility as well. Kids, as I've said countless time, can be painfully stupid. Especially teenagers; They think they know everything, but in reality know only just enough about the world to get themselves into trouble.

I'm a bit worried about the word "forcing." Very hard to show.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. "Forced" implies physical intimidation of some sort, i.e., at knife-point. I don't think that's what happened here either. Or maybe it did. The article's a bit bare on details.

Forcing can be implied by the parent/child relationship. When the child who is dependent on the adult is ordered by their parents to do something, while there is always free will, there is also a sense of obligation, that they don't have a choice. Thus that they are being forced to do something against their will.

Of course everyone already knows this so theres really not much point in my repeating it.

Of course everyone already knows this so theres really not much point in my repeating it.

No. Its a good point, and I am glad you spelled it out clearly.

Forcing can be implied by the parent/child relationship. When the child who is dependent on the adult is ordered by their parents to do something, while there is always free will, there is also a sense of obligation, that they don't have a choice.

An obligation is not force. I understand your view, but I still think the headline is misleading and editorializing. I'm not condoning the mother's actions in any way, of course. I'm suggesting that readers could be misled.