OSAKA (TR) – Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested a 21-year-old man from Yamagata Prefecture over the alleged sexual assault of a female middle school student he met through social media, repots Mainichi Broadcasting System (Feb. 19).
In November of last year, Shintaro Ishiyama, an office worker from Shinjo City, Yamagata, falsely represented himself on a social-networking service as a high school student to the 13-year-old girl from Kanagawa Prefecture.
He then invited her to a hotel and engaged in lewd acts with her.
Upon his arrest on suspicion of non-consensual sexual intercourse and other charges, Ishiyama admitted to the charges. He said during voluntary questioning before his arrest, “My original goal was to get her to send me photos. If things went well, I wanted to meet her.”
According to police, Ishiyama flirted with the girl by sending her daily messages. “I love you,” he wrote. “Don’t worry about money until you get to high school.”
In January, Ishiyama was first accused of violating the Child Pornography Prohibition Act. In that case, he allegedly coerced a female middle school student, then 14, from Fukushima Prefecture to send him nude photos.
During the investigation, several obscene images were found on his seized smartphone and computer, which led police to investigate whether he may have committed other crimes.
