TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a faculty instructor from Teradacho, Hachioji City, for allegedly committing lewd acts on an elementary faculty boy, stories the Mainichi Shimbun (Dec. 10).
Koichiro Tanaka, a 75-year-old juku cram faculty instructor, is accused of committing lewd acts on the 12-year-old boy on the banks of the Akigawa River in Akiruno City round early October.
Tanaka allegedly invited the boy, who was enjoying within the river, to a barbecue, urged him to take away his garments and wrapped him in a loincloth. “I just made him wear a loincloth with a white cloth to cover his genitals,” the suspect mentioned.
Upon his arrest on suspicion of indecent assault with out consent, the suspect denied the allegations. “I may have touched him with my hands when I was dressing him in a loincloth, but it wasn’t my intention,” he mentioned.
According to police, the boy’s mom turned suspicious when she heard her son speaking on the telephone to “an older man he met on the riverbank.” She then contacted police.
The boy mentioned, “I had fun playing in the water, but I felt uncomfortable when [the suspect] suddenly touched me.”
Tanaka is a former elementary faculty instructor who was discovered responsible of kidnapping a minor and violating the Child Welfare Act in 2017. In that case, he lured a boy into an condo in reference to an incident wherein a gaggle of kid pornography fans filmed and shared obscene movies of boys.