Driver arrested for sexually assaulting female user of support facility for people with disabilities on a Tokyo shuttle bus [Podcast Episode]

By Barrier Free Japan

October 18 2024

Koganei City, Tokyo – The suspect (71) arrested on suspicion of non-consensual sexual intercourse, is a driver for a disability support facility in Koganei City, Tokyo, who is suspected of sexually assaulting a female user in her 20s on the bus he was driving in July this year.

The suspect denied the charges, saying, “I did nothing obscene.”  The woman claims to have been a victim of similar assaults multiple times, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is investigating her for other crimes as well.

Episode notes:

‘Driver arrested for sexually assaulting female user of a support facility for people with disabilities on a Tokyo shuttle bus’:

Driver arrested for sexually assaulting female user of a support facility for people with disabilities on a Tokyo shuttle bus