OSAKA -- Former Osaka Prefectural Police officer Hidetoshi Sakamoto has been jailed for 3 years for taking nude photos of a schoolgirl and woman and threatening them with violence and exposure, a court here ruled.
Sakamoto, 26, the former law enforcer, was found guilty by the Osaka District Court of indecent assault and attempted blackmail.
"They were extremely malicious crimes that trampled on the human rights of the women involved," Presiding Judge Takahiro Mikami said as he handed down the ruling.
Court records showed that in January the former Sumiyoshi Police Station officer threatened a junior high schoolgirl with a paper cutter at a hotel where he stripped her, tied her up and took photos of her.
Then, in April, Sakamoto took nude photos of a woman in her 20s who he had met through a matchmaking site and demanded she pay him 500,000 yen or he would make the pictures public.
Mainichi November 22, 2007
恐喝未遂：元巡査に懲役３年 大阪地裁
出会い系サイトで知り合った女性の裸の写真を撮影し金を脅し取ろうとしたとして、恐喝未遂と強制わいせつの罪に問われた元大阪府警住吉署地域課巡査、坂本秀俊被告（２６）に対し、大阪地裁は２１日、懲役３年（求刑・懲役５年）を言い渡した。三上孝浩裁判官は「犯行は女性の人権を踏みにじるもので極めて悪質」と述べた。
判決によると、坂本被告は今年１月、ホテルで当時中学３年の少女にカッターナイフを突きつけ、裸にしてロープで縛って写真を撮るなどした。４月には２０代女性の裸の写真を撮影して「ばらまかれたくなければ５０万円を用意しろ」などと脅した。【川辺康広】
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