OSAKA (TR) – The Osaka High Court has upheld a life sentence handed to a 30-year-old former hospital worker who sexually assaulted 10 younger women, lots of whom had been ready at residence alone, reviews the Asahi Shimbun (May 11).
Between 2016 and 2022, Tomoya Yanagimoto focused women aged 8 to 12 throughout Osaka Prefecture. According to the ruling, he gained entry to their residences and condo widespread areas by tailing them or posing as {an electrical} employee earlier than finishing up the assaults.
Yanagimoto had appealed his authentic life sentence handed down by the Osaka District Court, arguing the punishment was too extreme. During the appellate trial, his protection group sought a decreased time period, highlighting that Yanagimoto had paid a complete of 9.3 million yen in compensation to a few of his victims because the preliminary ruling.
However, presiding choose Yuko Tsuboi dismissed the attraction on Monday. The excessive courtroom famous that the decrease courtroom had already factored within the prospect of future monetary compensation when it opted for all times imprisonment, concluding that the latest funds didn’t justify a lighter sentence.
During the primary trial, the district courtroom condemned Yanagimoto’s systematic predation, describing his actions as “the height of depravity and viciousness” that deeply broken the core identities of the younger victims.