<figure id="attachment_465171" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-465171" style="width: 1742px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="1306ebc3"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/04/a45ff009cd44c643bc134cdb3d9a6f50.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-465171" class="wp-caption-text">Nakaoka, a suspect sent to prison on April 9; how did he meet the victim, a junior high school girl, on SNS?</figcaption></figure>
<h3><span class="strongInContent"> How did he meet the victim, a junior high school girl, on a social networking service?</span></h3>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I won&#8217;t do anything, so let&#8217;s go.</span></p>
<p> The 22-year-old took the junior high school girl to a hotel.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> On April 6, Kodaira Police arrested Ren Nakaoka, 22, a company employee, on suspicion of non-consensual sexual intercourse with a junior high school girl. On March 1 of this year, Ren Nakaoka is suspected of taking Ms. A, whom he met through SNS, to a hotel in Tokyo and sexually assaulting her.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The case came to light when Ms. A consulted the Metropolitan Police Department, saying, &#8220;I was indecently assaulted by a person I met on a social networking service. The suspect, Nakaoka, has admitted the charge, saying, &#8216;There is no doubt about it.</span></p>
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<p> At around 9:00 a.m. on April 9, the suspect Nakaoka was sent to the public prosecutor&#8217;s office. Nakaoka emerged from the Kodaira Police Station convoy entrance and, as the police officer led the way, got into the convoy with a nonchalant gait, not even looking at the cameraman. His profile, with his bangs falling over his eyes, showed no emotion.</p>
<p> According to the &#8220;Juvenile Delinquency and Sexual Victims of Children in Reiwa 2025,&#8221; released by the National Police Agency in February of this year, the number of children who were involved in sexual crimes through social networking services increased by 80 from the previous year to 1,566. Junior high school students accounted for nearly half of the total, at 758.</p>
<p> How do adult males and junior high school girls get to know each other online?</p>
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<p> A writer familiar with Internet crimes says, <span class="strongInContent">&#8220;They target junior high school girls from the start.</span> He explains how men who have sexual interest in minors target junior high school girls.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> When a girl posts information on a social networking service such as Instagram, her profile may include information such as her age and area of residence that identifies her as a junior high school student living in that area. Men who target junior high school girls look for these profiles and send friend requests to all of them. Most of them ignore my friend requests, but there are some who respond with a polite &#8220;I&#8217;m a junior high school girl, right? Some of them even reply with a polite &#8220;I&#8217;m a junior high school girl.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> If the friend request is accepted, that&#8217;s it. If they accept your friend request, it&#8217;s all over. Then, at some point, they start insisting, &#8220;I want to meet you, let&#8217;s meet. Then, at a certain point, they persistently ask to meet, and at that point, some of the girls who can&#8217;t refuse, or who are worried that someone might know who they are because they have already sent their portraits, meet without being able to talk to anyone around them and end up becoming victims of the crime.</span></p>
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<h3><span class="strongInContent">Even if the price to pay is a big one.</span></h3>
<p> The man&#8217;s side is said to prepare carefully by faking his name and age, using a different person&#8217;s photo, etc. <span class="strongInContent">&#8220;With this method of invitation, you will pay a big price when you are arrested,&#8221;</span> the previous writer continues.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The writer continues, &#8220;Since the age and the junior high school age are confirmed at the beginning, &#8216;I didn&#8217;t know he was a minor&#8217; is not acceptable. Since they are committing a crime against a minor after knowing her age, they are charged with a greater crime than if the victim were an adult woman.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> If the victim is under the age of 16 and the suspect is under the age of 16, he or she will be charged with a crime. However, if the partner is under the age of 16 and the suspect is older than 5 years, the crime of non-consensual sexual intercourse will be committed, regardless of whether or not the partner consented. If the case goes to trial, the prosecutor will probably declare that it was a &#8220;despicable and malicious act of demanding sexual intercourse from a girl whose judgment is still immature, with the promise of money in hand.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> However, there is no doubt that there are a certain number of people who are willing to take such a big risk to satisfy their own twisted desires.</span></p>
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<p> What kind of life did the arrested suspect Nakaoka lead in his daily life? The suspect&#8217;s home was located in a 14-story condominium facing a national highway, about a 15-minute walk from the nearest station, with a rent of about 100,000 yen.</p>
<p> When we showed a resident of the condominium a picture of the suspect, he said in a puzzled tone: &#8220;We only see each other at the entrance and exit.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I honestly don&#8217;t know what kind of person lives here, since we only see each other at the entrance and exit. （When asked if I have seen this face before, I can only say that I think I have. But I have never heard the name &#8216;Nakaoka.'&#8221;</span></p>
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<p> If no settlement is reached with Ms. A and she is charged with &#8220;nonconsensual sexual intercourse, etc.,&#8221; the suspect Nakaoka will face serious charges.</p>

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<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" Photo: The &quot;expressionless&quot; face of Nakaoka, the suspect who was sent to the police station for prosecution."></div>
<figure id="attachment_465170" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-465170" style="width: 921px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="cc27a8c3"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/04/c0f15d6e12f4508414a56cc911cb224e.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-465170" class="wp-caption-text">It was impossible to read his expression from his profile with his bangs falling over his eyes.</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_465172" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-465172" style="width: 966px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="5df9bdfa"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/04/ffa23337fea5256574bfc89776aedc7a.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-465172" class="wp-caption-text"> He is suspected of taking a junior high school girl he met on a social networking service to a hotel and sexually assaulting her.</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_465457" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-465457" style="width: 949px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="dccabc0c"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/04/838fbee4f460d40a520282b45f644e62.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-465457" class="wp-caption-text"> He admitted the charge to investigators, saying, &#8220;There&#8217;s no doubt about it.</figcaption></figure>


 Nakahira Ryo

 Shinji Hasuo

 On April 6, a man was arrested for taking a junior high school girl he met on a social networking service to a hotel and sexually assaulting her. How do criminals who target minors get to know each other on social networking sites? We interviewed him to find out how he does it.

Taking junior high school girls to a hotel…The “vicious tactics” of criminals who “target minors from the start”.

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