KANAGAWA (TR) – Kanagawa Prefectural Police have arrested a 54-year-old contract worker on suspicion of targeting high school girls near Yokohama Station, spitting saliva onto their legs on repeated occasions, reports Nippon News Network (Oct. 28).
The suspect, Masaki Kikuta, is alleged to have approached girls in uniform at a commercial facility near the station, collecting his own saliva in his hand and flicking it onto the legs of three separate high school students as they passed by, police said.
According to investigators, Kikuta would stop off at Yokohama Station on his way home from work and deliberately single out uniformed schoolgirls as his targets.
Kikuta has admitted to the allegations, telling investigators, “I liked the bare legs of young women. Spitting on their legs excited me,” police said.
Authorities have not disclosed the identities of the three victims. The case is being treated as a matter of serious concern given the prolonged nature of the offending and the deliberate targeting of minors.
