89-year-old man arrested for indecent behavior in elevator

The old perv needs a good kick in the nuts.

89 tras old, 89! can you believe it, maybe he ha dementia. This is very odd.

Really, did this story need to be published. First and foremost, this man needed to be taken to have a medical check to see if all his marbles were fine. Second, if they were or were not, the family should have been contacted if there were any existing and have him treated.

A lot of elderly acts out, because they want to be arrested and so they can be locked up in order to get free medical care, lodging and food. The stats show a high number of elderly persons are locked up and found for just the reasons I laid out.

watch the recording(s). Probably a serial chikan.

I'm curious to learn why this man's name has been released when so much cover/privacy/presumption of innocence is offered to other alleged criminals,

Perhaps he doesn't have the right connections?

Makes you wonder how many times this dirty old creep had groped teens and women before - and gotten away with it.

Guess those karaoke videos with their cute young girls on the beaches or walking in pretty skirts got him riled up a bit.

Not enough information here to justify full-on outrage. We don’t know all the facts, but yet we do know the man’s name. And that is not fair.

I would hope that a presumption of innocence would prevail, and not a rush to judgment. At the same time, the young woman needs to be taken seriously. It is a tough balancing act.

I am reminded of the jury I was on for a man accused of molesting a five year old boy. The charges are very, very serious, but it took us, a jury of twelve women and men, less than an hour to deliberate and unanimously find him not guilty. Not all charges can be substantiated.

All those calling the man names ,need to get a life and learn about age and dementia where lots of the inhibitions in a younger brain disappear.

Drop the charges and check his mental health.

I worked in mental health including dementia wards and you'd be surprised how many stately matrons of the better class start dropping the "f bomb " at you.

Hamada says he accidentally brushed against her.

Okay! But does he have to lift her skirt to brush against her buttocks?

Ha! Ma!! Da!!! 89? Enjoy your 90! behind metal bars!

89 and just said, What the heck.

@gcFd1

89 and just said, What the heck.

I think you nailed it, basically. None of us here knows for sure, but what's the most likely scenario?

Answer?: 89 year-old fossil thinks "Hey, I could die tomorrow, and my, that is one delightful looking backside!" Put 2 & 2 together.

I'm not saying that young women should acquiesce to dirty old relics. If it were my daughter, I'd say "Give him a light punch in the mouth". Nothing that would put him in hospital. And the world would go on turning.

Final thought: Japanese woman... you've got to start using your fists girls!! Harder or softer, depending on the age of the perpetrator and how disgusting the attack is. But punch!!! Curl those fingers up and punch, or we'll be reading the same story 50 years from now.

Dr Maybe, you nailed it!

I worked with a female colleague who was assaulted in a lift. When she went to the female officer in charge of counseling related to this kind of thing, she was told that 1. The perpetrator must have been foreign. And 2. That she was partly responsible because of the clothes she was wearing.

Attitudes towards this kind of thing really need to change here.

Maybe he didn’t do it.

What a load of nonsense. Unless there was a camera in the lift this is simply one of those 'he said, she said' scenarios where nothing can be proven and so where no conviction can be made. The presumption of innocence must rule. Besides, it seems that this girl said nothing at the time to the staff, so even if something did occur it must have been quite trivial. A storm in a teacup. It's quite wrong that the old chap has been named.