45 year-old 'psychic' arrested for raping 21 year-old woman in Nagoya

Friday 22nd August, 04:41 PM JST

AICHI —

Police on Thursday arrested a 45 year-old man for raping a 21 year-old woman in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture.

Akio Hirai, was arrested for allegedly raping the woman, who works at a sex-related business in the city, between July 26 and 30.

According to police, Hirai visited the victim’s sex shop as a customer and persuaded her that he could exorcise the evil spirits that possessed her by having sexual relations with her. Police said Hirai threatened the woman after she began to doubt his spiritual powers.

Hirai, who works for a computer company, was quoted by police as saying, “I pretended to be a psychic to gain the victim’s trust.”

12 Comments

techall at 05:11 PM JST - 22nd August

A five day rape. After five days she started having doubts about his spiritual powers? She works in the sex industry. I'm having real problems feeling sorry for this girl expect for her possibly being the dumbest thing on the plaanet!
Altria at 05:16 PM JST - 22nd August

Maybe theft or fraud is a more accurate description.
techall at 05:26 PM JST - 22nd August

Altria:

It doesn't say her charged her anything or took an money from her, in fact he was a customer in her shop so I don't think theft would apply.
jonobugs at 05:31 PM JST - 22nd August

She works at a sex shop, which could mean just a shop that sells sex toys. That doesn't necessarily mean she works there in any other capacity. Also, regardless of her occupation, if she chooses to say no to someone, then it's considered rape if the man forces or threatens her to have sex with her. In this case, it just may be his word against hers.

Also, there's no information WHEN she said no. Maybe she said no right from the beginning but he held her for five days...it's possible, but maybe unlikely.

She might not be the brightest crayon in the box, but that doesn't mean she has no rights.
sensei258 at 08:01 PM JST - 22nd August

It's not rape if she agreed to the sex, then regrets it days later.
nidu at 09:24 PM JST - 22nd August

“I pretended to be a psychic to gain the victim’s trust.”

Never heard of people trusting a psychic so often. Wrong move man...
WilliB at 12:07 AM JST - 23rd August

Unless there is more than being told in this story, I wonder where the "rape" is? I see a vivid imagination, lying, gullibility and/or stupidity. But rape??? She agreed to have sex with him because she believed his fairy tale. That ain´t rape, no matter how you turn it.
OgieDoggie at 02:24 AM JST - 23rd August

You mean an American Serviceman WASN'T involved?

She had a SEX SHOP and she was maybe testing out one of her toys with the customer and things got carried away (like one of the spirits told her to do it)?

Or maybe the guy's check for the sex toy bounced and now she's mad?
miokou0 at 06:10 AM JST - 23rd August

i pretended to be a psychic to gain the victums trust........nice!!!
bamboohat at 09:03 PM JST - 23rd August

Miokou0: what an awful thing to say!

(note to self, must pick up a deck of tarot cards or something...)
seansezso at 01:36 AM JST - 24th August

A five day rape.

No. The article does not say she was raped for five days straight, or even a number of times. It says the rape occurred on one of those five days. Maybe she cannot remember which.

Police said Hirai threatened the woman after she began to doubt his spiritual powers.

I take that to mean that no sexual relations occurred except for this one time he coerced her by threating her. That is rape.

She works at a sex shop

The article says she works in a sex related business. Could be a lot of things, including things I would not consider to be sex related, like an escort service or a hostess club.
JoeBigs at 01:11 PM JST - 24th August

Ok can we say stupid person for allowing some boob to trick her into putting out? This should not be brought to any court. If she feels that she did not get what she asked for. Then let her take it to civil court. This will be tossed out of any criminal court room.