TOKYO (TR) – On Thursday, a trial started on the Tokyo District Court through which three Cambodian girls who labored at a farm in Tochigi Prefecture are in search of compensation for repeated sexual abuse by the male proprietor.
According to the lawsuit, the three Cambodian girls, aged of their 20s, are in search of compensation totalling 92 million yen, experiences TBS News (June 19).
One girl alleges that the proprietor of the farm repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a roughly five-month interval, threatening that she could be despatched again to her dwelling nation if she refused.
She additionally claims that after she grew to become pregnant in January 2023 she was compelled to have an abortion with out having acquired a enough rationalization in her native language. The sexual abuse allegedly continued even after the abortion.
The different two girls declare that their breasts had been groped by the proprietor.
“I asked him to stop”
The three girls got here to Japan in June 2022 and labored on the strawberry farm as technical intern trainees. They continued working till April 2023.
The first girl got here to Japan with a debt of 16,500 {dollars}. She advised the court docket on Thursday, “I was frequently called by the owner and began to be sexually assaulted. I asked him to stop, but he threatened to send me back to Cambodia, so I just endured it in silence.”
She additionally stated that when she came upon she was pregnant, the hospital compelled her to have an abortion. “I’m a Buddhist, so abortion is an unforgivable sin. This also torments me,” she stated.
The defendants, then again, are asking that the case be dismissed.