MDN: Rapist nabbed after returning to pick up dropped cell phone
A 21-year-old man who raped a 15-year-old girl and tried to sexually assault two others was arrested and charged after he went back to a crime scene to pick a cell phone he dropped, police said Tuesday. The man, Jun Takeshima, from Sendai, was arrested and reported to prosecutors on suspicion of rape resulting in injury and illegally entering a residence.
Investigators said Takeshima used a box cutter to threaten a 15-year-old girl on a landing of an apartment block in Sendai's Aoba-ku at about 8 p.m. on June 3. After punching her in the face, he allegedly raped her. On two other occasions, on Aug. 27 and Sept. 28, he followed two other high school girls living in the city, and attacked them once they opened the doors of their homes. Once he was inside, he tried to rape them, threatening them at knifepoint, police said. However, in the incident in September, he made the mistake of dropping his cell phone in the victim's home. When he went back to pick it up, the girl's family apprehended him and handed him over to police.
When questioned over his actions, Takeshima said he began attacking the girls after taking photographs up women's skirts. "I had an interest in young girls," he said. "While I was taking photographs up women's skirts I began to think about rape."