TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested three men responsible for a prostitution service after a teenage girl was revealed to be an employee, a violation of child welfare statutes, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Nov. 9).
Atsuo Yoshinari, 27, a resident of Nishi Shinjuku, Tokyo, and two others were taken into custody by officers from the youth affairs department for employing a 17-year-old girl to supply sexual services to a 41-year-old office worker at a hotel in Kita Ward in June.
According to police, between September and October last year, Yoshinori recruited more than 1,500 men via encounter Web sites to be customers for women under the age of 25. The rates were set at 20,000 yen per session. Revenues totaled 30 million yen.
Nippon Television reports that Yoshinori formerly worked as a club host.
The plan was revealed when the mother of the teenage girl, who is now 18, consulted with police sometime in June.