Gunma high school baseball player arrested over obscene act

Friday 01st August, 06:20 AM JST

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gogogo at 11:35 AM JST - 1st August

How can he be arrested he is 15?
mikihouse at 12:20 PM JST - 1st August

anyway, this boy has been reported to have raped different girls from different prefectures (Japanese reports). Serial rapist it seems...
thepro at 03:21 PM JST - 1st August

Just 16 years old. What makes some human beings like this?
williamsmith at 03:58 PM JST - 1st August

Question: "Just 16 years old. What makes some human beings like this?" Answer: Sex
Ah_so at 04:31 PM JST - 1st August

anyway, this boy has been reported to have raped different girls from different prefectures (Japanese reports). Serial rapist it seems...

Be careful - the repeat of a (potential) libel is still libel.
WilliB at 06:34 PM JST - 1st August

blvtzpk:

" To prevent this problem, I'm taking my kids to hookers. "

Wish I had had that kind of father! Don`t know if that really helps, though. I strongly suspect that the "chikan" type gets its kicks from embarrassing the victim. If it is only about sex, I think high-schoolers in Japan should get that easily enough.
presto345 at 06:52 PM JST - 1st August

The fact that the youth was arrested indicates that what he did was a serious offense. The girl most certainly did not appreciate what the guy did and reported the incident. Good thing too. If she (or her parents) hadn't reported it he would do it again. Time for this young man to grow up. Sneaking up behind someone is bad enough, touching makes it a lot worse. Just read that he seems to have a history of similar offenses. I hope they put him away for some time and after that keep an electronic tap on him.

While school baseball teams in Japan sometimes refrain from taking part in competitions as a way to take collective responsibility if any of their members are involved in a scandal, it has been questioned whether such a practice serves any educational purpose.

I doubt that it does.

second grade in highschool makes sense to me

To me too, spudman. Thing is English is the language widely used in international communication and not only in some states in the USA, or Britain, or Ireland, or Australia, each country having its own variation. It's also spoken widely in India and the Philippines, for example. Again, in different flavors. All languages change, evolve all the time. New words, expressions and idiom find their way into the vernacular constantly. Let's not nitpick if someone uses the language a little different from what you were taught long ago. The so-called native and non-natives on this forum make loads of mistakes all the time.
presto345 at 06:58 PM JST - 1st August

helloklitty

To prevent this problem, I'm taking my kids to hookers.

How about teaching some morals, respect and discipline?
presto345 at 07:01 PM JST - 1st August

Question: "Just 16 years old. What makes some human beings like this?" Answer: Sex

williamsmith tells us. Wrong answer, though. The answer is more like "False set of values". Also look at my previous post, please. See if you can identify with that.
DenshaDeGO at 09:36 PM JST - 1st August

How about teaching some morals, respect and discipline?

How can the drowning save the drowning?
Blue_Tiger at 11:18 PM JST - 1st August

Its too bad that this happened, and it makes me wonder what the media outlets would be reporting had this young, 16-year-old baseball player had been in different circumstances, a different age, and/or from a different country. I really feel sorry for the girl, and hope that she recovers okay, and that this kid who did this will get the proper punishment. I figure had he been a foreigner, and possibly in the US Military, his story would be blown out of proportion, haters and mockers would be posting to the Nth degree, but seeign he is a Japanese boy, who happens to be underage, he seems to be getting fair treatment. At any rate, this story is too bad. Good to know the team wasn7t penalized for one idiot doofus' actions and misdeeds....
nandakandamanda at 11:55 PM JST - 1st August

Quick question on language. Is what he did really an 'obscene' act as the headline says?

According to the women interviewed in this article

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20080801-00000155-mailo-l10

the attacker wore a black T-shirt and a black ski mask with eyeholes.

The article says that when the cops stopped him he had a black ski mask in his bicycle basket.
thepro at 07:13 AM JST - 2nd August

I wish they would make it clear what kind of attack it was, instead of the super-vague, Japanesey 'obscene act.'
Molenir at 09:15 PM JST - 2nd August

Do they need to spell it out for you? He did something bad to a girl, she reported him, like all girls should, the cops caught him, discovered he had a history... Does the specific details like that maybe he raped her really matter?
seansezso at 03:29 PM JST - 7th August

Does the specific details like that maybe he raped her really matter?

When the police arrest people, yes, the reason matters. Maybe we dont need to know the details of the rape, but yes, we need to know whether the lad was arrested for rape, touching, finding a black mask laying around, or because the coppers didnt like his haircut.

discovered he had a history

Of what?