OKAYAMA (TR) – A courtroom right here final month convicted a 51-year-old man for drugging and sexually assaulting 9 feminine company and different company on the guesthouse he ran within the city of Satosho over a four-year interval, studies TBS News (Oct. 18).
On September 24, the Okayama District Court handed the unnamed man a jail sentence of 26 years. The prosecution had sought a 28-year time period.
He was charged with 4 crimes: quasi-forcible intercourse, quasi-forcible indecency, tried quasi-forcible indecency and violating the Okayama Prefecture Nuisance Prevention Ordinance.
Between 2018 and 2022, the person sexually assaulted and molested 9 girls — together with company on the guesthouse — by mixing medication with sleep-inducing properties into cocktails and different objects, rendering them unable to withstand his advances, the decision stated. He additionally secretly filmed one feminine visitor.
“Black shadow”
Dating again to his first trial in 2024, he persistently maintained his innocence. The difficulty of prison duty was the principle level of competition.
At his trial on June 3, the person acknowledged, “I was being threatened and ordered around by a ‘black shadow’ at the time. I thought I would be killed if I didn’t obey. I have no memory of the crimes. I was in a state of insanity at the time of the crimes.”
The prosecution acknowledged, “He used the guesthouse as a trap to satisfy his sexual desires. This was an unprecedented, extremely despicable and heinous crime.” It added that he confirmed “a fundamental lack of any sense of morality.” It concluded that he confirmed no indicators of regret and there’s a excessive danger he’ll reoffend.
The protection argued, “At the time, due to the influence of mental illness, he was unable to distinguish between right and wrong and was unable to control his actions.”
“Rendering them unable to resist”
At the sentencing listening to held on September 24, the person entered the courtroom carrying a two-tone grey and black prime, a grey tracksuit and a masks. After taking his seat in entrance of his lawyer, the person seemed across the gallery with a clean expression, then seemed straight forward.
Presiding choose Akihiro Motomura acknowledged, “[The defendant] secretly gave the victims drugs with sleep-inducing effects, rendering them unable to resist, before engaging in sexual acts with them. He also filmed the acts and saved the [footage] in folders named after the victims, acting in an extremely rational manner to achieve his goals.”
Regarding the “black shadow” declare, Motomura stated, “There is no evidence of any abnormal factors, such as hallucinations or delusions, being involved.”
The courtroom additionally discovered that the person’s declare of psychological sickness was conveniently used to justify the crimes, and located little doubt that he had a psychological sickness on the time of the crimes. It discovered the person absolutely answerable for his actions.
“This was an extremely heinous crime that disregarded the dignity of the victims,” Motomura stated, “It could even be considered that the guesthouse, where the crimes were committed repeatedly shortly after it opened, was a stage set prepared by the defendant for his crimes.
“The way he lured women looking to enjoy solo travel one after another and then felled them into his clutches is so horrifying that it makes one want to look away.
“Turned into a nightmare”
Motomura additionally spoke in regards to the girls who have been victimized. He stated, “The victims’ happy memories have turned into a nightmare they no longer want to recall since the investigative authorities informed them of the facts, and the mental anguish they have endured is immense.
“They have been subjected to unnecessary heartache, such as being criticized for even staying at a guesthouse and regretting their choice of accommodation.
“What would have been a very fond memory had they not been victimized has now turned into a bitter one. No matter how much time passes, this incident cannot be undone. It is only natural that they all call for severe punishment for the defendants.”
Furthermore, concerning the person’s ordinary and heinous crimes, Motomura acknowledged, “[The defendant] shows not the slightest sense of responsibility for this type of crime. Even taking into account that he has no criminal record, his selfish attitude, following only his own desires and treating his victims as convenient objects, deserves extremely severe condemnation.
“He consistently offered absurd excuses, such as claiming that he was ordered to commit the series of crimes by a hallucination of a dark shadow. He has shown no remorse or even faced up to his responsibility. Considering that this attitude continues to hurt the victims’ feelings, there is no reason to reduce the sentence in the general circumstances.”
The man’s expression remained unchanged after receiving the sentence, however when the attraction choice was defined to him, he nodded barely and silently left the courtroom.
The man, dissatisfied with the decision, filed an attraction on September 25.