TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested the supervisor of a non-public therapeutic massage parlor in Bunkyo Ward for illegally using a 12-year-old Thai woman, experiences NHK (Nov. 6).
Between June and July of this yr, Masayuki Hosono, the 51-year-old proprietor of the non-public therapeutic massage parlor, is alleged to have illegally employed the Thai woman to produce sexual companies.
Police haven’t revealed whether or not Hosono admits to violating the Labor Standards Act by using a baby underneath the age of 15.
“Wait for me”
According to police, the woman entered Japan along with her mom on a short-term visa in late June, after which her mom took her to the parlor and defined erotic therapeutic massage strategies to her.
Police stated that her mom later got here to see her in mid-July, bringing her child along with her. She instructed the woman, “This child is your younger brother, and I’m going back to Thailand with this child tomorrow. I’ll come to pick you up, so keep working and wait for me.”
The woman later stated to police, “I was shocked because I didn’t know about my younger brother’s existence. I really wanted to go home too, but I couldn’t tell my mother because I was afraid she would get angry.”
Sleep close to kitchen
While on the parlor, the woman was pressured to work and sleep close to the kitchen. Police stated that the parlor made about 620,000 yen from 61 clients given sexual companies by the woman.
The woman was not paid, with the parlor and the mom splitting the revenues she accrued. Hosono coated the woman’s dwelling bills. The cash for the mom was wired to a checking account within the title of an individual related to her.
The incident got here to mild when the woman visited the Tokyo Immigration Bureau herself in mid-September. The woman is presently being protected by related authorities, however has expressed a want to return to Thailand.
Police are investigating the scenario intimately, together with whether or not it was a case of human trafficking.