Disability News Japan Podcast: Former Director of Osaka Prefecture Facility for Disabled Arrested for Quasi-forced Indecency

By Barrier Free Japan

August 8 2023

Sakai City, Osaka Pref – A former director of a facility for the disabled in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, was arrested and indicted for committing an obscene act against a woman who entered the facility.

The former director of a facility (87) for the disabled in Nishi Ward, Sakai City, was arrested and indicted for quasi-forced indecency.

According to the indictment and other documents, the defendant is accused of indecent acts such as touching the breasts of a woman with an intellectual disability (42 years old at the time), who was a resident of the facility in September last year for about 20 minutes.

Episode notes: https://barrierfreejapan.com/2023/08/06/touching-breasts-for-20-minutes-former-director-of-osaka-care-facility-for-disabled-arrested-for-quasi-forced-indecency/