Sexual Activity Posted by Ex-boyfriend Still Spreading After 3 Years! Where Are the Police and Can Giant Platform Be Held Responsible for the Victims Trauma?
Followed her on her way home and wrote letters to her home…
When the spread of the video was discovered, Ms. B’s life changed drastically.
Afraid to go outside, she took time off work and shut herself in her home. When he walked around town, he was driven by the fear that one of these people might have seen her video.
Over the next few months, she gradually began to go outside.
But on her way home from work, he felt someone was following him, more than once or twice. Around this time, the relatives received frequent phone calls from Ms. B, who said she might be being stalked. Whenever she went out, the relatives tried to accompany her as much as possible.
One day, a letter arrived suddenly in her mailbox. The content of the letter was about the leaking of the video. There was no postmark on the letter. Someone must have posted it directly to her mailbox.
I immediately moved out of my home at the time. However, the fear that someone might know about her wherever she was did not disappear.
Around that time, Ms. B attempted suicide. She was rushed to the hospital and survived.
Three years have passed.
I have consulted with the police, but have yet to file a damage report. I am afraid that by filing a damage report, the damage will become public and escalate. The psychological hurdle of having to tell the police officer the details of the situation is also a high psychological hurdle.
After discussions with the man who first posted the video, a settlement was reached. However, more than three years have passed since the first video was posted, and Ms. B’s videos are still being exposed on the Internet several times a month.
When she walks outside, she wears a mask and glasses to hide her face. She has also changed his hairstyle significantly from the time the video was taken. Her appearance has changed, but if you look closely, you will recognize her. The fear of people’s eyes does not disappear.
It is a crime to provide or publish sexual images without the person’s consent.
In addition to violating the Act on the Prevention of Damage Caused by the Provision of Private Sexual Images and Records (commonly known as the Revenge Pornography Prevention Act), which came into effect in 2014, depending on the nature of the offending act, it may be considered a violation of the Child Pornography Act, a crime of distribution of obscene material, a crime of coercion, a violation of the Stalker Control Act, or other multiple crimes at the same time. The Ministry of Justice is currently considering adding a new crime of “filming” to the Penal Code, which regulates sex crimes, such as voyeuristic photography.
According to the Ministry of Justice’s “White Paper on Crime 2021,” there are approximately 200 to 250 arrests for such crimes each year.
But is this really enough to keep up with the number of arrests? I was immensely surprised when I looked up the apps that the two victims had been using.
I found more than 300 women whose photos and videos had been posted on the app in just 10 minutes of searching on the Internet.
Interview and text by： Mariko Tsuji
While at Waseda University, Mariko Tsuji became a member of the Waseda Chronicle (now Tansa); from June 2019 to June 2022, she also worked as a reporter for Toyo Keizai, writing on topics such as child abuse, psychiatry, and the reproductive business; at Tansa, she created a pharmaceutical money database and reported on the wasteful spending of the Corona temporary grant for local development He has also reported on the creation of a pharmaceutical money database and the verification of the wasteful spending of Corona's temporary local development subsidy. He is co-author of "Reporto: Gulag Archipelago.
