But the old man's efforts at luring the young girl into his clutches proved to
be something of a flop -- in more ways than one.
"The girl told us that, perhaps because of his age, Nakamura wasn't able to get
an erection and never penetrated her. Instead, she spent each session licking
his entire body. She said she recommended he try Viagra and stuff, but Nakamura
wouldn't do it, saying he'd be all right," a police insider tells Shukan
Gendai.
Another officer adds: "It's true Nakamura never penetrated the girl. But the
law also forbids simulated intercourse. He deviously tricked the girl into
going to a love hotel with him and we figured that was good enough to arrest
him."
As surprising as Nakamura's age is his standing in the community. The
81-year-old is a former top reporter with the Hokkaido Shimbun, the northern
island prefecture's premier local newspaper. He was also involved in his local
residents' association.
"He was the first head of the residents' association of our apartment block. He
worked for a newspaper at the time, so we figured he'd be smart and that was
exactly how it turned out. He got lots done and everybody relied on him," a
resident of the Sapporo apartment building where Nakamura and his wife lived
tells Shukan Gendai.
Nakamura is also a fluent English speaker. He gave English lessons to old folks
at a local community center and also organized trips overseas for the elderly.
But Nakamura also had another face that some people occasionally glimpsed.
"He was an old codger who never stopped blabbering on, especially to women, who
he never failed to try and talk to when the chance arose," another neighbor
says.
Nakamura was also well known at the supermarket where he met the young girl he
is accused of abusing.
"He offered to buy me meals, but I turned him down. A store worker who saw it
said, 'Ah, that old fogey is coming around trying to pick up the young girls
again,'" a young girl who hangs out at the supermarket tells the weekly.
Nakamura's elderly wife says she is too ill to comment on the case, even though
her husband has been running around after young girls. Police aren't so
refrained.
"I guess his desire to chat to young people just escalated into something
different, but the fact is that we've got Hokkaido's oldest ever child
prostitution arrest on our hands," a police officer tells Shukan Gendai.
"Nakamura is apologetic. But, at his age, it's a bit hard to tell him something
like 'It's about time you got your life in order.'"
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