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Ergzay
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HannoX
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Whatever the truth of the matter proves to be, it's not good that a 30 year old man was with a teenaged girl for several weeks.
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CatSword
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Wonder how this will affect the currently airing anime with his name on it (if at all).
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HK16
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What an interesting story. Like I always say... Gotta hear both sides.
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SHD
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Really? What do you think the "other side" could say that doesn't make the dude come off really, really bad, because from the two people involved here he's the adult who should have known better? |
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Paulo27
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SHD
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Even if she could consent* and even if she did agree to it whether she could legally do so or not, he is an adult who should have known better than messing around with a teenage girl. Not to mention, if this wasn't something fairly serious for which he is the one held responsible, he wouldn't have been arrested in the first place. *And no, actually in general they can't consent - there's this myth that in Japan the age of consent is 13, but that's not exactly true. And all we know about this girl is that she is in her teens, not her exact age. Edit: also if you read the Japanese article, the charge specifies that he took her to his home in Shibuya while being aware that she was a minor. ("捜査１課と焼津署によると、余容疑者は８月中旬～９月２日、未成年と知りながら静岡県内の１０代の少女を自宅に連れて行くなどした疑いがある。") |
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ANN_Lynzee
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Hey guys, there's literally no evidence in the article that there's any kind of consent taking place between the teen girl and the 30 year old man that held her at his apartment for two weeks.
He's being charged with kidnapping her from her own house. Everything else initiating from the first post is baseless speculation attempting to mitigate some of the blame from the kidnapper on to the girl with zero reason other than imagining it up. It took only a handful of posts to imagine up this girl as a sex worker for absolutely no reason other than you could. Stick to what's in the article and go ahead and change your opinion when there's some kind of evidence to suggest there's anything more to this story than a girl got kidnapped by 30-year-old man. |
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Cutiebunny
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I’ve noticed that parents in Asian countries tend to be very trusting of people, such as teachers, that are held in higher regard. I remember dealing with one case recently where an American man from was traveling with two teenage boys from Taiwan. He was their teacher and their parents gave their consent for the boys to travel with this man. What the parents didn’t know is that the man is a convicted sex offender in the US and was found to be carrying child pornography on his smartphone.
It is possible that the parents initially didn’t suspect this employee because of his higher position in the company. I noticed that they filed a police report in mid-August but it doesn’t mention if it was filed within a day of her disappearance or a couple days afterwards. They might have initially given consent for her to travel with him, but when she was gone longer than the initial period, they suspected something was wrong. |
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Ergzay
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Just to be clear, the text said it's suspected that he did it, not that he did it. "疑いがある" |
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Fluwm
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Notice how there’s always at least one person here ready to immediately leap to the defense of a pedophile or rapist and demand we give them the benefit of the doubt? Every. Single. Time.
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SHD
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That "疑いがある" is the same "allegedly" that would be there in English as well - it's there because there is no official verdict yet. (Why, exactly, was this comment deleted?) |
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manapear
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These comments are wild, and frankly, quite scary.
I hope he's properly punished and that girl gets any help she needs. I don't know how traumatized she may or may not be, but I hope people are taking her needs seriously. (I mean, if she was taken from her home, I can't imagine she'd even be safe at home.) |
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capt_bunny
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Must agree with the comments.... I hope life doesn't make them regret their words if they end up in the parent's situation...I really do hope. Poor girl... The man knew this was wrong for kidnapping and keeping someone is wrong regardless of whoever and age. |
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SHD
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Nothing changes the fact that he was found accompanying a minor who had been reported missing. Whether he forcefully kidnapped her, or they eloped, or whatever, it doesn't matter because he is an adult, the other person involved is a minor, and he was doing something that he shouldn't have been doing according to the judicial system. Whatever else there is might be a mitigating circumstance at best.
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