- This group of men ‘filmed themselves abusing their own children aged 6-14 and shared footage online’
Police from Aichi Prefecture in Japan arrested some men as of March 11 on suspicion of repeatedly raping their daughters or stepdaughters, aged six to 14, filming the scenes of the assaults and sharing the videos on social media.
They are accused of penetrative sexual assault, and violations of anti-child prostitution and anti-child pornography laws, reported the Japanese newspaper.
The Kyodo News agency, NHK television and other outlets say police in the Aichi prefecture, a region in central Japan, took the men who are in their 30s, 40s and 50s into custody.
They are also accused of child prostitution and child pornography, the reports said.
The men were in the same chat group for incest and paedophilia, and the Aichi police believe they sexually abused their daughters and other children regularly.
They were discovered after one of the men was arrested in November 2024 for suspected penetrative sexual assault of a minor, and a probe of his mobile phone revealed the group were sharing explicit videos.
The group is thought to have started exchanging information around December 2023, reported Mainichi Shimbun.
