A man in his 20s from Japan, accused of coercing and molesting the teenage daughter of a woman in her 40s he had been dating, was caught on camera making a V sign with his fingers toward news cameras from inside a transport vehicle.
On the 1st, Japanese police referred construction worker Kubo Ryoki, 21, who was arrested on charges of nonconsensual obscenity (forcible indecency) and abduction for an obscene purpose (kidnapping), to prosecutors.
In Yomiuri TV's footage of the transfer, Kubo smiled and waved at reporters' cameras and made a V sign with both hands.
Kubo is suspected of breaking a window to enter the home of the woman he was dating in August this year and threatening the woman's teenage daughter before committing an indecent act in a car. The daughter was reportedly found in the car with her hands and feet bound with tape.
In a police interview, Kubo said there was a money dispute with the woman he had been dating and noted that taking the victim was not for the purpose of an indecent act but to harass the woman he was dating.