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Cops' bad miss over sex shop shocks young Miss
September 15, 2004
Osaka - Red-faced police have apologized to a young woman here after her
parents received notification from a family court that she faces obscenity
charges following a sex shop raid only for investigators to later discover the
schoolgirl apprehended had stolen the woman's identity, Osaka Prefectural
Police said.
The schoolgirl caught up in the case faces an additional charge of forging
official documents as well as her initial charge of indecent exposure.
Police apologized to the woman whose identity the schoolgirl had used.
"The numerous mistakes made during the investigation could all have been
prevented had a single phone call been made to the home of the woman whose
identity was used," said a spokesman for the Osaka Prefectural Police, who
investigated the case.
Police said the 17-year-old schoolgirl obtained a family register from the
18-year-old woman who had once attended the same high school and used the
document as proof that she was old enough to work in a sex shop when she signed
an employment contract with a Nagoya cathouse. She later went to work at a
similar establishment in Osaka.
After the police raided the Osaka sex shop on July 8, they sent an
investigation report to prosecutors, accusing the schoolgirl of indecent
exposure. However, the name and address she gave them were the details taken
from the woman's family register that she had obtained from their hometown in
Ena, Gifu Prefecture.
Although the schoolgirl quickly provided a name and address taken from the
register, she gave the wrong number of family members for her ploy to be
foolproof.
Without noticing the mistake, police sent an investigation report to
prosecutors, accusing the woman of indecent assault.
When a family court sent out details of a hearing to the only address they had
for the suspect, the papers arrived in the unsuspecting hands of the parents of
the young woman whose identity had been taken. The parents contacted the police
and the young girl's alleged ruse was thwarted.
Investigators eventually caught up with the schoolgirl and sent an
investigation report, accusing the girl of indent exposure. Police are also set
to send an additional document to prosecutors accusing her of forgery for
taking out the young woman's family register and using it as her own.
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