Hide cameras in fake stones and shoot 1,000 women in hot spring baths 'Awak'
Sep 11, 2024
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According to Japanese media, including TBS News, the Yamagata District Court held the first trial of a 31-year-old man accused of voyeurism on the 2nd.
Born in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, he was found to have installed a camera disguised as a stone in an open-air bath in Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture, and photographed the naked bodies of 1,000 women.
He made a fake stone using clay and plastic and hid a camera inside it.
The crime was revealed when a woman reported suspiciously that light was reflected from the stone.
At that time, the camera's cable was wrapped in brown tape to disguise it, and it was connected to a secondary battery so that it could be filmed for a long time.
Pretending to be a hiker, he went to the open-air bath forest almost every day and even filmed the nakedness of women using telephoto lenses.
There were 44 victims secured by the police. However, it was found that they were secretly filmed in the same way in hot springs in other areas, and according to his statement, about 1,000 people were found to have been affected.
In addition, a police investigation found medical books on the bodies of men and women in the man's room.
The man told the trial that he did it to satisfy his interest in women and his intellectual curiosity.
Prosecutors said the man's crimes were `planned, habitual and malicious' and `we seek a two-year prison sentence because of the possibility of a repeat offense.'
The first ruling on the man is scheduled to be made on the 17th.
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