A 14-Year-Old Student Reportedly Forced His Girlfriend To Have Sex With A Teacher

Police revealed the details.

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This article includes descriptions of sexual assault that may disturb some readers.

A 14-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of coercing his girlfriend into prostitution to repay his online gambling debts.

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Unrelated photo for illustrative purposes | Stephanie Hau/Unsplash

According to Tokyo police, the second-year student allegedly forced his girlfriend–a third-year student–to go along with his plan by assaulting her and threatening to end their romantic relationship.

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During his police interrogation, the boy admitted that he had arranged for his then 14-year-old girlfriend to have sex with a 39-year-old elementary school teacher for 30,000 yen (approximately $188 USD). According to police, the man was not a teacher at the teens’ school; he met the girl through a telephone-based dating service. This was the first but not only time the girl was reportedly coerced into sex work.

Within the span of three months, the girl had allegedly been forced to prostitute herself ten times, and she gave all the money she earned to her boyfriend. She told police that she agreed to do so because she did not want her boyfriend to break up with her.

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Unrelated photo for illustrative purposes | Sydney Sims/Unsplash

These crimes took place in Tokyo in 1998. Although calls for greater protection for women and children persisted for decades because of cases like this one, Japan’s age of consent was not raised from 13 to 16 until 25 years later, in June of 2023.

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Japan’s Parliament on the day the raised the age of sexual consent was raised. | Kyodo News via AP
Source: Japan Times and Toronto City News (1) and (2)
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