Remember the incident we reported on here back last April about the guy who was arrested for raping a young woman in a train in Osaka?
The guy sat down next to a 21-year-old womanh on the train and told her to keep quiet, threatening her with death if she screamed, and proceeded to have his way with her. Later he dragged her into the men’s toilet and completed the dastardly deed, totally uninhibited by the 40 other passengers in the car.
Subsequent investigation found out that he had raped two other women as well, one in another train and one in a station rest room.
Well, his trial is over, he has been found guilty, but though the judge called the crimes “audacious and dispicable” and admitted that the psychological damage to the victims is enormous, he sentenced the perp to 18 years behind bars, seven years less than the 25 years sought by prosecutors in the case.
Prosecutors had sought a sentence of 25 years in prison, saying the defendant had sent the victims “to the nadir of terror in public” and that it is likely that he will commit similar crimes in the future.
The defense had argued for leniency, claiming that brain damage suffered by [him] due to a traffic accident may have influenced his acts.
A traffic accident influenced his actions?
What happened? Did a car run over his willie?
Leniency? The perp should be released from human bondage and passed to the next life. And how could 40 people not take notice and do something? That is just amazing, too! Maybe they thought they were watching a virtual AV movie in thin air?
I believe the article said “brain damage” - the brain affects the body, if you didn’t know.
Thanks, Raj. . . That explains everything.
It’s still more than he would have got in good old Blighty. In all probability he would have gotten a six month suspended sentence and a stern talking to. Assuming he was convited in the first place, and last I read the number of rape complaints in the UK that lead to a conviction is something in the order of three percent.