Alleged sexual assaults reported at Oita care facilities for people with disabilities in fiscal year 2019
Oita Prefecture reported that in fiscal year 2019 ‘sexual acts’ such as kissing took place at care facilities in the prefecture.
Category: Sexual abuse
Staff member at Tokyo facility for disabled arrested for sexually assaulting visually impaired woman
According to investigators, it was suspected that he broke into an apartment room in Tokyo on March 3rd, threatened a visually impaired woman in her twenties, sexually assaulted her, and robbed her of about 25,000 yen in cash.
Tokyo based NPO holds symposium in Kagoshima regarding sexual violence against disabled people
“Hiromi Nakano, the president of the NPO, pointed out that “I want the country to understand the actual situation and review the penal code.” “
Intellectually disabled woman in Nagano awarded damages for sexual abuse at care facility
“A 20-year-old woman in Nagano prefecture with an intellectual disability sued a facility on the grounds of sexual abuse from a male staff member. A judgment was made requiring damages of about 12 million yen against the administrative institution in Shiojiri City with the authority to investigate and supervise the corporation, the prefecture, to held at Matsumoto district court on Thursday.”
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