TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a male youngster welfare facility worker from Saitama Prefecture over the alleged sale of kid pornography final yr, stories the Asahi Shimbun (Oct. 31).
Between March 14 and July 27 of final yr, Korean nationwide Pyeon Soo-In, 31, allegedly pretended to be a lady on on-line message boards. “I want some pocket money. I have videos and images taken in the bath,” he wrote.
He subsequently bought 10 gadgets, together with movies of nude kids, to a number of males for a complete of 34,500 yen.
Upon his arrest on suspicion of violating the Child Prostitution and Child Pornography Prohibition Act on Friday, Pyeon mentioned, “I’m interested in naked elementary and middle school students, and I’ve been collecting videos and images for about five years. About two years ago, when my life became difficult, I started selling them to pay for food and other expenses.”
The suspect defined that he had bought the movies to twenty to 30 folks, incomes a complete of round 200,000 yen. Approximately 2,800 movies and pictures believed to be youngster pornography have been saved on the suspect’s cell phone and laptop.
The suspect has been working on the youngster welfare facility since round 2023. Police consider that the movies and pictures within the possession of the suspect don’t embody any of youngsters from the power the place he works.