Fukuoka police officer arrested for involvement in child prostitution
FUKUOKA -- A Fukuoka Prefectural Police officer has been arrested for his role in child prostitution, becoming the fifth officer in the force to be apprehended over the past year, police officials said.
Hideaki Maeoka, 56, a sergeant, stands accused of violating the Anti-Prostitution Law and the Child Welfare Law. He is the third Fukuoka police officer to be arrested since the beginning of this year.
Maeoka conspired with Eriko Ishimatsu, 45, a sex shop owner, to introduce a 17-year-old girl to a 64-year-old man for prostitution in November last year, investigators allege. He denied the allegations during questioning.
"I was told she was 18 years old. I told her not to perform prostitution," Maeoka was quoted as telling investigators.
However, prefectural police suspect that Maeoka worked at Ishimatsu's sex shop as a telephone operator and the driver of a car to dispatch and pick up sex workers belonging to the shop.
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(Mainichi Japan) May 19, 2008
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