Kanagawa former deputy mayor of Hayama Town Arrested suspected of obscene activity to high school girls July 15 18:57

In April, a 53-year-old man who was a former deputy mayor in Hayama-machi, Kanagawa Prefecture, was arrested for violating a child welfare law in April for allegedly performing obscene acts on high school girls at a hotel in Yokohama. It means denying the charges.

The arrest was the former deputy mayor of Hayama-machi, Kanagawa prefecture, who was unemployed Takataro Tanabe (53), according to police. 17-year-old female student is suspected of violating the Child Welfare Law for her indecent behavior.

It is said that she had been acquainted through SNS several times before and had been doing obscene acts several times before, and it seemed that she was urging her to contact the school and her parents.

At the time, there was a call for refraining from going out due to the influence of the new coronavirus, but it was said that he called the hotel and made an obscene act and handed around 10,000 yen cash.

According to the investigation, "I heard that I was 18 years old. I went to the hotel, but I did not do obscene acts," he said, denying the charges.

Tanabe was the deputy mayor of Hayama Town for eight months until May 2013.