KAGAWA (TR) – Kagawa Prefectural Police on Tuesday arrested a 38-year-old male practical nurse for the distribution child pornography of foreign children on the Internet, reports the Sankei Shimbun (April 14).
Police accused Hironori Takano of uploading one film and six images featuring foreign boys and girls aged between six and 14 to the file-sharing site E-mule in November of last year. The content was produced in the Netherlands.
Takano has reportedly denied the allegations. “As to the uploading of the child pornography, I don’t know why I did it,” the suspect is quoted by police.
A search of Takano’s personal computer revealed nearly 860 illegal images and videos. One of the file names on the computer was an abbreviation for “lolicon,” which refers to men who are attracted to much younger females.