Former Aichi facility worker sentenced to three years for assaulting people with intellectual disabilities
Defendant Mizuno apologized in the final statement, crying, “I never hated the residents and I don’t know why I did that.”
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Disability News Japan Podcast Episode 74: Musician who worked for Tokyo 2020 Olympics, boasted of assaulting disabled is removed from Fuji Rock line-up
The musician Keigo Oyamada has been removed from the line-up at the prestigious music festival ‘Fuji Rock’.
Musician who worked for Tokyo 2020 Olympics and boasted of assaulting disabled is removed from Fuji Rock line-up
The musician Keigo Oyamada has been removed from the line-up at the prestigious music festival ‘Fuji Rock’.
Former Hyogo After-school daycare worker sentenced to 3 years in prison for assaulting children with developmental disabilities, filming them naked
“According to the verdict, between March and August of last year, he repeatedly committed indecent acts and assaulted four boys who were users of the facility, in conspiracy with his colleagues.”
Almost one year after actions of staff “recognized by the Kobe Municipal Government as sexual abuse” committee finds care home to have provided residents with “inappropriate care”
An independent committee established with the approval of the city of Kobe recently compiled and released a report on the Rokko Tsurujuen, a social welfare corporation in Nada Ward, Kobe City, which has been found to have provided inappropriate care to the elderly and whose employees complained of power harassment.
Father of a child with a disability condemns sacked composer for the Tokyo 2020 Games who abused disabled children
“As a parent, I have no words to describe what my child has been through at school. What kind of nerve is it to make fun of that as an adult? It’s a dark joke that a song by someone like this should be played at the Paralympics. It could be traumatic. Even if it happened 27 years ago, it’s not acceptable.”
Fuji Rock festival gives high billing to musician who confessed to assaulting disabled children
Keigo ‘Cornelius’ Oyamada, who confessed and apologized for forcing his classmates who had disabilities to eat their own faeces and masturbate in public, will play on the ‘Green stage’ on Saturday 21st August at the popular music festival.
Composer for Tokyo 2020 opening and closing ceremony who Assaulted Disabled People “informed officials of his intention to resign”
Keigo Oyamada, who was in charge of composing the music for the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games, has informed officials of his intention to resign.
Disability News Japan Episode 70: Composer For The Tokyo 2020 Games Apologizes For Assaulting Disabled People
“Oyamada confessed to two magazines that he bullied during his school days. In the January 1994 issue of the Japanese music magazine “Rocking On Japan,” he wrote, “I would make him naked, wrap a string around him, and make him masturbate.”
Former employee at Hyogo facility for the disabled sentenced to prison over abusing resident on a daily basis
The Amagasaki Branch of the Kobe District Court has sentenced a former employee of a facility for the disabled in Nishinomiya City to two years and four months in prison on charges of assault and battery for abusing a resident.
