Former junior high school principal who sexually assaulted a female student “filmed the act and saved it.
The defendant touched the female student under the guise of massaging her. He continued to do so even after the female student began to cry.
In his opening statement, the prosecutor criticized the defendant’s actions.
On November 20, the Tokyo District Court heard the first trial of Hizaka Kitamura, 57, a former principal of a public junior high school where he worked, who is accused of rape and assaulting a female student at the school, causing her injuries. He is alleged to have committed an indecent act against Ms. A for giving her a massage.
The prosecution claims that he ‘put the victim in a state of mind where she could not resist and was at his mercy because she would be disadvantaged if she did not comply. The defense, on the other hand, claimed that he did not say or do anything that would cause the victim to reject him. Kitamura denied part of the charge. Immediately after his arrest, Kitamura told the police, “I was not conscious of committing adultery. I couldn’t suppress my desire to love the victim.
Kitamura also committed an incident at another junior high school where he worked. He filmed indecent acts with two female students and kept the data in a locked desk drawer in the principal’s office. According to the prosecution, after his arrest, Kitamura told the police, “I was not going to delete [the data], but I was going to keep it in a drawer in the principal’s office. According to prosecutors, after his arrest, Kitamura told the police, “I thought it would be a waste to delete the data, so I kept it to look at it later. The reason he brought it to the principal’s office was because he was afraid that his wife, who had remarried, would find it at home. He said that he kept the data to look at it later.
FRIDAY Digital” reported in detail on the case of the indecent video taken by the defendant Kitamura in an article distributed on September 14, 2011. We would like to recount the former principal’s unforgivable crimes against his students and his appalling statements (some parts have been corrected).
He had a liking for her.
I had been subjected to indecent acts by a teacher in the past.”
The incident was uncovered by a single phone call to the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education’s “Third-Party Consultation Service. The caller was a female victim. After several rounds of communication with the person in charge, the woman contacted the police. When the police investigated the workplace and home of the junior high school principal they believed to be the perpetrator, they found a video camera in the principal’s desk that contained nude images of a former student of the woman.
On September 10, 2011, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Investigation Division 1 arrested Kitamura on suspicion of violating the Child Prostitution and Pornography Law (possession).
The defendant admitted to the police that he was in possession of a camera that contained images of a female student being touched and naked. He said the following about his motive and the situation. ‘I saved (the images) thinking I might see them again,’ and ‘I was taking images of the female student’s lower body being touched.
The female victim was a student at a junior high school in Tokyo where Kitamura used to work. Kitamura says, ‘I had a liking for her. Her image was not the only one stored on the video. A video of another girl was also found, and the police are investigating for additional crimes.
Kitamura went to a prestigious public high school in Tokyo and then to a national university. At the university, he studied in the education department and focused mainly on science research. His reputation among parents and students was not bad.
‘He was always smiling.’
In interviews with various media outlets, graduates of the school where he worked and others responded positively, saying that he was ”bright and kind” and ”always smiling. After graduating from a national university, the defendant Kitamura worked at a junior high school in Bunkyo Ward.’ In April 2007, he became the principal of a junior high school in Nerima Ward. He was an enthusiastic teacher who also served as an advisor for the kendo club.
Kitamura was dismissed from his position in November. After the incident was discovered, the Nerima Ward Board of Education held a press conference and apologized as follows.
We sincerely apologize for the arrest of the principal, who is in a position to teach and lead children and is the chief administrator of the school. We deeply apologize to the victims, students, parents, and residents of the district.
In recent years, there have been frequent incidents of obscenity by teachers at schools and cram schools.’ In September 2011, a former teacher at Yotsuya Otsuka, a major junior high school entrance examination cram school, was arrested again on charges of indecent assault.
The Child and Family Agency is trying to prevent crimes in advance by introducing a ‘Japanese version of DBS,’ which can check criminal records based on the British system. This system allows schools and cram schools to check the criminal reference system when hiring teachers and instructors. It is hoped that the system will serve as a deterrent to indecent assaults by teachers.
Having a “fondness” for a teacher is no excuse. The former principal, who was unable to control his own desires, has inflicted a scar on the children and their parents that will be remembered for a lifetime.
PHOTO: Shinji Hasuo