Father of Kidnapper Reveals Suspect’s Unexpected True Face After Assaulting Two Junior High School Girls

Setting up a date by pretending to be someone else

Once again, minors have become embroiled in an incident sparked by social media.

By October 8, the Senju Police Station of the Metropolitan Police Department arrested Daisuke Sawamura, 39, a company employee, on suspicion of non-consensual sexual intercourse and indecent kidnapping for taking two junior high school girls by car and sexually assaulting them at a hotel.

“One of the victims, a junior high school girl, and the suspect met through SNS. The junior high school girl was anxious and asked her friend to escort her to the meeting place. When she cycled to the meeting place, a man completely different from the one in her SNS profile appeared, and she tried to leave the place,” said a reporter from the society department of a national newspaper.

Sawamura chased the two junior high school girls fleeing on bicycles for several hundred meters in a rented car and strongly pressured them to get into the car. He then forced them into his car and took them to a hotel in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture, where he committed the crime.

The incident was later discovered when the victim, a junior high school girl, consulted her parents.

“The suspect Sawamura was also charged with confinement for keeping the two junior high school girls under his control so that they could not escape until he took them to a hotel in Kawaguchi City and released them on a street in Adachi Ward. The junior high school girls told the police when they were interviewed that they did not know what would happen to them if they did not do what he said.”

Sawamura grew up in a quiet residential area between the Arakawa and Sumida Rivers.

A nearby resident said, “I only have the impression of Daisuke (Sawamura) as a ‘cute kid with big eyes’ from his elementary school days. I hardly saw him recently, and I didn’t know what he was doing or where he was.”

The suspect’s father revealed his true feelings in response to a direct interview.

When asked by the father, who appeared at the front door to collect the mail, about Daisuke Sawamura’s recent behavior, he replied, “I don’t really want to talk about it,” and then added dismissively:

“Nothing’s changed. I’m the one who’s surprised. I’ve known him (Sawamura) for over 30 years, but this is the first time he’s done something like this. He’s never committed a crime before. I can only think that he must have been temporarily out of his mind.”

Sawamura, who posted a fake profile picture on social media and prepared a rental car, was anything but impulsive. In response to police questioning, he allegedly claimed,

“I did engage in lewd acts, but there was consent. The girl came along of her own accord, so I did not kidnap or confine her.”

For the sake of the victims, a swift clarification of the truth is urgently needed.