Japan's self-styled 'prince' jailed for sex slavery
TOKYO, Oct 19, 2007 (AFP) - A Japanese court sentenced a self-described 'prince' to 14 years in prison on Friday for chaining a teenage girl with a dog collar for months and assaulting other women in a sadistic fantasy. Yasuyoshi Kobayashi, 26, the son of a wealthy family who sports groomed long hair, was convicted of raping four women after confining them at his home or hotels where he demanded they call him 'master' or 'the prince.'
Kobayashi flipped through novels for young girls during his trial and appeared as self-absorbed as ever at his sentencing, showing up in a white suit with a red turtle-neck sweater, media reports said.
The crime was extremely evil-natured... as he attempted to make them do as he pleases and deprive them of freedom,' Tokyo District Court Judge Toru Takahashi ruled, as quoted by the Yomiuri Shimbun?s online edition.
Kobayashi met the four women, aged 17 to 23, on the Internet or at public events. He confined and assaulted them, threatening to harm their families if they left, the court ruled.
Kobayashi, who was arrested in May 2005 after one of his traumatised victims escaped and came forward to police, contended that the women had voluntarily stayed with him.
'I?ve been in the world of sadomasochism for more than a decade. It?s impossible for me to do something my partner dislikes as that goes against the principles of S&M,' he earlier testified to the court, as quoted by media.
Kobayashi chained the teenage girl with a dog collar, repeatedly raping her and assaulting her in an ordeal he photographed with his mobile telephone.
Local media said after Kobayashi?s arrest that police had confiscated from him more than 1,000 sadomasochistic sex video games, adult comics, schoolgirl uniforms and chains, along with numerous books on depression.
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