OSAKA (TR) – Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested two men for allegedly tying up a woman in her residence in the prefecture and sexually assaulting her, reports Mainichi Broadcasting System (June 29).
On a night earlier this month, Takashi Yamashita, 44, and Takashi Soma, 32, are suspected of gagging the woman, aged in her 20s, from behind while she was returning home to her apartment.
One of them then said while holding a knife, “Be quiet. Do you want to be killed?” After tying her wrists, the pair is alleged to have sexually assaulted her, causing minor injuries to her wrists.
They also tied up a man, aged in his 20s, when he returned home during the aforementioned crime by tying his wrists, arms and legs. He, as well, suffered minor injuries.
Soma is an office work living in Higashiosaka City. Upon his arrest on suspicion of non-consensual sexual intercourse resulting in injury, confinement and other crimes, he admitted to the allegations. “I had always wanted to commit rape just once,” he said. Yamashita also admitted to the same charges.
“We didn’t know each other”
At some point after the crime, the man untied himself. He then had an acquaintance call police.
According to police, the two suspects communicated with each other through social media with the intention of sexually assaulting the woman. Soma told police, “We didn’t know each other, and we called each other by nicknames.”
To gain access to the building, they followed other residents through the automatic door.
An examination of security camera footage take around the crime scene showed the suspects and a third man. Police are now seeking the third man’s whereabouts as he may been involved in the crime.
