KYOTO (Kyodo) Police said Monday they have arrested six male students of the Kyoto University of Education on suspicion of gang-raping a 19-year-old woman at a Kyoto pub.
According to the prefectural police, Shota Isotani, 22, Satoshi Takeda, 25, and four other students raped the university student, who was drunk at the time, on the evening of Feb. 25 in a vacant room in the pub.
Takeda has admitted to the allegations but the other five claim the woman was not drunk and the sex was consensual, the police said.
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