Cody
25th April 2003, 09:50
Serial child rapist charged with accomplice over fourth attack
A pedophilic rapist who recruited at least three accomplices online to accompany him on his crime spree last year was hit Friday with a fourth rape charge, police said.
Takamitsu Fujii, a 31-year-old used paper recycler from Tokyo's Edogawa-ku, is accused of raping a 15-year-old junior high school girl in October last year.
Police arrested Fujii's suspected accomplice for this particular crime, 22-year-old student Masaki Abe, on Friday.
The duo reportedly forced the victim who was returning to her home in Narashino, Chiba Prefecture, into their van on the night of Oct. 4, 2002, and raped the girl before freeing her two hours later.
The 31-year-old Edogawa man has already been indicted for raping and robbing a high school girl in the ward in April last year with another accomplice, Shigetomo Takahashi.
Fujii, Takahashi and a 19-year-old man from Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor, have been also accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in Edogawa-ku in September last year.
Police said Fujii started recruiting men to rape underage girls with him on an Internet chat board from around February 2002. Fujii, Takahashi, Abe and the fourth rapist, who all hail from areas around Japan's capital, only knew each other by their nicknames, investigators said.
(Compiled from Mainichi and wire reports, April 25, 2003)
A pedophilic rapist who recruited at least three accomplices online to accompany him on his crime spree last year was hit Friday with a fourth rape charge, police said.
Takamitsu Fujii, a 31-year-old used paper recycler from Tokyo's Edogawa-ku, is accused of raping a 15-year-old junior high school girl in October last year.
Police arrested Fujii's suspected accomplice for this particular crime, 22-year-old student Masaki Abe, on Friday.
The duo reportedly forced the victim who was returning to her home in Narashino, Chiba Prefecture, into their van on the night of Oct. 4, 2002, and raped the girl before freeing her two hours later.
The 31-year-old Edogawa man has already been indicted for raping and robbing a high school girl in the ward in April last year with another accomplice, Shigetomo Takahashi.
Fujii, Takahashi and a 19-year-old man from Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor, have been also accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in Edogawa-ku in September last year.
Police said Fujii started recruiting men to rape underage girls with him on an Internet chat board from around February 2002. Fujii, Takahashi, Abe and the fourth rapist, who all hail from areas around Japan's capital, only knew each other by their nicknames, investigators said.
(Compiled from Mainichi and wire reports, April 25, 2003)