A former middle school principal in Tokyo was sentenced to nine years in prison on Monday for raping his students and videotaping the acts 14 years ago.
The Tokyo District Court found Hisayoshi Kitamura, 57, guilty of sexually assaulting a number of his former students. Twenty-nine video clips and 19 photos of the acts were found on a video camera at his office in a middle school in Nerima Ward, which he had become principal of, after one of the victims reported her assault to the metropolitan education board in 2022.
He was dismissed from his position in November 2023.
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