Toyama Prefecture Official Under Fire for Alleged Suggestion to Send Inappropriate Images to Junior High School Girls
You can send me naughty pictures if you want.
Please give me a naked picture.
The man allegedly demanded this of the junior high school girl via SNS messages.
The police arrested Akito Taga, 23, an employee of Toyama Prefecture’s Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Department, on November 5 on suspicion of making a demand to send the images to a 14-year-old girl, A. It is said that he sent the message to her to send indecent images. He told the police, “There is no doubt that I made the request, but I don’t remember the details.
The suspect and Ms. A, who attends a junior high school in Tokyo, met through an online game in May of this year. The incident occurred on August 2. On August 2, the suspect allegedly requested Ms. A to send him a naked picture via direct message on a SNS with which he had exchanged contact information.
Ms. A communicated with the suspect using her mother’s smartphone and a computer loaned by the school. Her mother discovered indecent messages from the suspect. She consulted the police, and the incident was discovered. According to prefectural government officials, the suspect played baseball at one of the best schools in the prefecture. His work attitude was serious, and he had no particular problems at work,” said a reporter from the society section of a national newspaper.
I couldn’t keep him down.”
The photographer for this magazine photographed the suspect’s transfer to the police station on November 5, immediately after his arrest. When he first came out of the police station, he had an astonished expression on his face as he stared at the press, but he remained downcast for the rest of the ride in the convoy.
There have been a number of indecent cases involving public officials. Here are some of the major problems that have occurred in recent years.
In October 2010, a Tokyo ward official in his 20s was arrested on suspicion of semi-forcible sexual intercourse. He allegedly forced his girlfriend to drink milk tea containing a sleep inducing drug and sexually assaulted her when she became disoriented. He told investigators, “I had a lot of sexual desire and couldn’t control it. He stated, “I had a lot of sexual desire, and I couldn’t control it. There is no doubt that I had sexual intercourse with her without her consent.
In January 2011, an elite bureaucrat in his 30s was arrested on suspicion of indecent assault. The man was watching a movie at an Internet cafe with a woman acquaintance on Christmas night, and when she left her seat, he injected drugs into her. When she was unable to resist, he allegedly touched her.
The one thing they all had in common was that they were all serious about their work and had no problems in their jobs. While they were working steadily, they may have been under a lot of stress. However, that in no way means that indecent behavior toward women is acceptable. It is outrageous to sexually assault a woman for the sake of one’s own stress and desire.
In the case introduced at the beginning of this report, the suspect stated that he learned that Ms. A was 14 years old through an exchange on SNS, and it is believed that he committed the crime while knowing that she was a minor.
PHOTO: Shinji Hasuo