Japan: Mother of falsely accused groper who killed himself seeks justice

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2010-05-12 17:34

Story here. Excerpt:

'The venue he chose was one he knew well from his university days – a platform at Waseda subway station. Not long before, he had had a dreadful misadventure. At JR Shinjuku Station, he’d been jumped by two male university students whose female companion – all three had been drinking – accused him of groping her. They beat him and dragged him to a police station, where police interrogated him throughout the night.

Harada’s mother, so suddenly bereft of her only son, continues to seek eye witnesses at Shinjuku Station.

For nearly an hour after the police released him early on the 11th,” says Naomi Harada, 53, “my son wandered around central Tokyo. He is extremely nearsighted and wasn’t wearing his contact lenses, so he wouldn’t have been able to see much. He was studying English, and generally carried an IC recorder about with him. It was switched on. My son’s voice is on it, muttering something through tears. I can’t make out what he’s saying.”'

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Innocent or not he was treated in a horrible and imbalanced manner every step of the way. Molestation in such a context, where the person is completely safe, is just not that bad. I have had my butt grabbed by random girls. I found it weird and slightly annoying but I wouldn't try to publicly denounce them or try to bring aggression on them by labeling them with a horrible term. This kind of fake victimization is just wrong.

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Submitted by fondueguy on Thu, 2010-05-13 06:18