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<h3><span class="strongInContent"> Sentence&#8221; handed down to a defendant with no remorse.</span></h3>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> He said, &#8220;After 17 years in prison and education, I felt I knew I had made a mistake in my thinking. I am very sorry that I did what I did this time despite my remorse.&#8221;</span></p>
<p> The 57-year-old man, who repeated the voyeurism about a year after his release from prison, regretted his actions.</p>
<p> Masahiro Suzuki, 57, who was accused of photographing four women in a sexual manner, breaking and entering, and theft, was sentenced on May 27, 2014, at the Tokyo District Court.</p>
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<p> Standing on the stand with his head cut short, Judge Sasaki <span class="strongInContent">stated, &#8220;A total of four women have had their private spaces, where they are supposed to feel safe and secure, neglected, had the keys to their homes stolen, and were photographed in a sexually explicit manner.</span> He sentenced them to <span class="strongInContent">three years in prison on</span><span class="strongInContent">the grounds that &#8220;the anxiety and other mental anguish they have caused each victim is great.</span></p>
<p> Suzuki was first arrested in October 2013. In September of the same year, he was suspected of breaking into Ms. A&#8217;s room and attempting to commit an indecent act.</p>
<p> On November 4, he was arrested at the Ayase Police Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on charges of photographing sexual acts and breaking and entering.</p>
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<p> At the trial, Suzuki&#8217;s vile crimes of repeatedly breaking into women&#8217;s living spaces and voyeuristically photographing them were exposed in the open.</p>
<p> In July 2013, he voyeuristically photographed Ms. A twice. In August of the same year, he broke into Ms. B&#8217;s room, which was unlocked, and stole one of her keys. In September of the same year, he took video of Ms. C naked through the window of her accommodation. In November of the same year, he broke into Ms. D&#8217;s room, stole her key, and then took video of her nakedness.</p>
<p> The crime against Ms. B was discovered when images of her and her sister&#8217;s driver&#8217;s license were saved on Mr. Suzuki&#8217;s smartphone. During a search of the house, a key with a tag bearing Ms. B&#8217;s name was seized.</p>
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<h3><span class="strongInContent">It just happened to be unlocked&#8230;&#8221;</span></h3>
<p> Suzuki used the word &#8220;control&#8221; to describe his motive for committing these crimes.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> He said, &#8220;By seeing [the women] unprotected, and by obtaining their keys and personal information, I felt as if I was in control. I was not planning to use a duplicate key to re-enter the house or anything like that. I had stolen the keys to the victims&#8217; houses, and I felt like I was in control because I had access to their houses whenever I wanted to break in again.</span></p>
<p> Suzuki had a criminal record. He was sentenced to 17 years in prison by the Saitama District Court in 2006 for four counts of rape and one count of indecent assault, and was released on parole on November 30, 2011.</p>
<p> When he was first released from prison, he worked diligently in the cleaning business, but due to the stress of his job and a sense of loneliness, he <span class="strongInContent">&#8220;developed bad habits and started going out alone at night,&#8221; which led to the incident</span>. The &#8220;bad habit&#8221; may refer to peeking in windows or entering unlocked houses.</p>
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<p> He said, <span class="strongInContent">&#8220;</span><span class="strongInContent">I happened to enter the house when the door was unlocked, and the woman happened to be naked, so I recorded it.</span> He lied that he had restrained himself from committing heinous crimes such as non-consensual sexual intercourse.</p>
<p> Suzuki was imprisoned about 20 years ago, and since smartphones were not yet widely used at that time, he got his first smartphone after his release from prison <span class="strongInContent">.</span> He did not remember when he actually started using his phone for voyeuristic photography.</p>
<p> As for his involvement in &#8220;voyeuristic photography,&#8221; he recalled it as if it were something else.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I never thought I would be taking such voyeuristic pictures, so I was a little surprised that I could commit a sex crime like this.</span></p>
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<p> In his reasons for sentencing, Judge Sasaki referred to the defendant&#8217;s previous convictions and declared, <span class="strongInContent">&#8220;Although the defendant was convicted and sentenced to 17 years in prison and should have been given a chance for rehabilitation, he committed his first crime only eight months after the completion of his sentence and continued to commit crimes after that.</span> The defendant Suzuki also repeatedly used the phrase &#8220;17 years,&#8221; as in the beginning of his speech, expressing regret that &#8220;17 years <span class="strongInContent">of reflection, etc., have gone to waste.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> He said, &#8220;During my 17 years of education in prison, I realized many things, such as &#8216;cognitive distortions&#8217; and that my thinking was wrong. Well, I didn&#8217;t fix it at all. I thought I had learned things that I could use after I got out of prison, but I didn&#8217;t use them this time.&#8221;</span></p>
<p> If Suzuki does not appeal, he will remain in prison, although it is hard to believe that his &#8220;bad habits,&#8221; which have quickly squandered 17 years of reflection, will subside after only three years in jail. &#8230;&#8230;</p>

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 Nakahira Ryo

 Shinji Hasuo

 On May 27, a man was sentenced in the Tokyo District Court for sexually photographing four women and breaking and entering into their homes. The man, who was released from prison less than a year after serving 17 years for rape and other crimes, spoke in court about his "regrets.

Ruling: “A man who repeated his “bad habit” less than a year after being released from prison was judged.

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