KANAZAWA (TR) – A excessive court docket right here this week upheld an eight-year jail sentence for a 54-year-old former firm government who repeatedly raped his teenage daughter, dismissing his protection that he had paid “restitution” by protecting her on a regular basis dwelling bills, stories the Asahi Shimbun (Apr. 22).
On Tuesday, the Kanazawa department of the Nagoya High Court rejected the attraction of Hiroji Daimon, who was convicted of quasi-rape for sexually assaulting his organic daughter, Riho Fukuyama, a number of instances from when she was in center college till highschool.
According to the ruling, Daimon took benefit of his daughter’s lack of ability to withstand. Court paperwork particularly detailed an incident in August 2016, when Fukuyama was 16.
Presiding decide Keisuke Masuda famous that the sufferer was “repeatedly forced into sexual intercourse and had lost the will to resist,” recognizing that she felt she needed to submit as a result of she was solely depending on her father financially.
Daimon appealed his authentic eight-year sentence handed down by the Toyama District Court final yr. In a bid for leniency, he claimed his “remorse had deepened” and bizarrely argued that the dwelling bills he supplied throughout Fukuyama’s scholar years needs to be thought of “financial restitution” for his crimes.
Judge Masuda swiftly struck down the attraction, labeling Daimon’s claims an “unreasonable excuse” and stating there was “no room” to rethink the unique jail time period.
Advocate towards sexual violence
Fukuyama, now 26, has taken the uncommon step of coming ahead underneath her actual title to publicly advocate towards sexual violence. She attended the appellate ruling and addressed the media alongside her husband afterward, expressing profound reduction however lingering anger.
“I am shocked he would use the fact that he provided my living expenses as a justification for his actions,” Fukuyama advised reporters. “If he was truly remorseful, he would not have appealed the sentence in the first place.”
She delivered a remaining, resolute message relating to her abuser: “If he really is sorry, I want him to spend his eight years in prison thinking carefully about what he did wrong. I will never see him again.”