Two women in their twenties were asked to give their contact information on the street late at night! 26-year-old man suspected of indecent assault
Please help me!”
A woman’s screams echoed in a residential area late at night. Hearing her screams for help, a neighbor called 110. The man’s crime was discovered through security camera footage and other evidence.
On July 15, Kamata Police Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested Takumi Tsushima, 26, a company employee living in Ota Ward, Tokyo, on suspicion of indecent assault. He allegedly touched two women on a street in the same ward.
The alleged incident occurred on June 20, just after midnight. The suspect must have spotted Ms. A, who was in her twenties and a victim of the crime. Security cameras caught Tsushima following Ms. A, who was on her way home, for several hundred meters from a station near the crime scene.
At a deserted place, Tsushima asked Ms. A, “Please tell me your contact information. Please give me your contact information. When Ms. A screamed, “Please help me! When Ms. A shouted, “Please help me,” he got on a bicycle parked nearby and fled.
If you pay with your body, you get away with it.
Tsushima’s crime did not stop there. Shortly afterwards, he allegedly passed another woman in her 20s on a bicycle and touched her breasts.
The photographer for this newspaper filmed the suspect being sent to the police station. He turned his sharp gaze toward the press and showed no sign of depression. He admitted to the police that he had committed the crime, and gave the following stunned statement about his motive: “She was cute, so I wanted to touch her.
She was a cute girl, so I felt the urge to touch her. (I was too drunk to remember (the crime against the second victim, Ms. B).
In recent years, there have been many cases of indecent trouble on the streets late at night. The following are some of the major incidents.
Last July, a man in his 30s was arrested on suspicion of indecent assault after he allegedly hugged and tried to sexually assault a female college student on a street in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, at around 1 am in June. He followed the college student after he had spotted a woman he liked. The female student ran away when she noticed the man approaching from behind, but he caught up with her and touched her breasts and other parts. More than 100 spy photos of the woman were found on the seized man’s smartphone. He told the investigators that he was “controlled by his impulses.
In August last year, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested a man in his 50s. A bicycle collided with another bicycle on a street in Nerima Ward, and the man and a woman in her teens fell over. The man stuffed up the bicycle, saying that the basket of the bicycle was broken. He then took the woman to a nearby parking lot and indecently assaulted her, saying, “If you pay me with your body, I’ll make it even. The man admitted the charge, saying, “There is no doubt about it.
What kind of circumstances could be behind the rash of late-night street indecent assaults?
The suspect often commits his crimes in residential areas near his home. This is because they are familiar with the area and can easily escape, and there are fewer pedestrians around late at night. Women should, of course, avoid walking alone late at night, but if they feel uneasy, they should enter a convenience store that is open 24 hours a day. If the suspicious person does not leave, you should talk to the clerk and report it to the police.
Another characteristic of late-night indecent assaults is that many suspects repeat the same act.
PHOTO: Shinji Hasuo