Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly threatening a junior high school girl into prostitution, in violation of the child welfare law, investigative sources said.
According to the sources, Eiki Morita, a temporary worker, is suspected of forcing a then 13-year-old student to meet a sex buyer in his 40s at a hotel in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward on April 12 last year by threatening her to “make money.”
Morita has partially denied the charges against him, saying that he did not threaten her.
The girl began hanging around an area called “Toyoko” in the Kabukicho entertainment district in the ward around March last year. Morita is believed to have had influence in the area.
Morita instructed the student to engage in prostitution after she disclosed her age to him, the sources said.
He allegedly posed as the student online and recruited sex buyers through social media. After securing an appointment, he then sent the student to a hotel.
The case came to light in April last year when the student consulted with the MPD, saying she was engaging in prostitution against her will. She told police that she had feared what the suspect would do to her if she refused.
The MPD suspects that Morita had also forced other girls into prostitution.
AloJapan.com