Daily Gomiuri
The Saitama prefectural police have taken into custody four middle school girls and a high school girl on suspicion of violating the Internet dating site control law by posting online messages offering themselves for prostitution, sources said Monday. The four middle school girls, aged between 13 and 15 and a second-year high school girl, 16, are from Saitama and Ibaraki prefectures, the sources said. As several girls, including a 12-year-old primary school girl, had posted similar messages on the dating service site, officers plan to take more girls into custody, the sources said. The police also have arrested three men, including Shigeru Odaka, 44, a primary school janitor in Edogawa Ward, Tokyo, on suspicion of violating the same law and have sent papers on another man to public prosecutors, the sources said. The dating service site was called the "Bulletin for Enjo Kosai with Female Primary and Middle School Students." Enjo kosai (compensated dating) is a euphemism for teenage prostitution....more...