Current Events > Senior police officer commits suicide after being accused of raping 3 women.

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A senior superintendent who had been detained over accusations of raping at least three women last year died in a police cell in Hiroshima in an apparent suicide, police said Sunday.

Koichi Iwamoto, 58, was found unconscious with his long johns around his neck and tied to the door of the toilet in his cell in Hiroshima Chuo Police Station at around 8:20 p.m. Saturday and pronounced dead at a hospital, the police said.

According to the police, Iwamoto left what appeared to be a suicide note.

The officer, who was on suicide watch, was indicted of raping three women whom he met through a dating app and was recently served a fresh arrest warrant for the alleged rape of two others.

During the first hearing of one of the three women at the Hiroshima District Court in January, Iwamoto's defense side pleaded not guilty, saying he went to a hotel with her but did not have sex with her.

Police allege that he blackmailed the three women by telling them he would report them to the police unless they agreed to sex, and forced them to sign documents admitting to prostitution.

On loan from the Okayama prefectural police since March of last year, Iwamoto served as a senior instructor at the police school at the Chugoku Shikoku Regional Police Bureau.

Katsutoshi Ono, who oversees the management of detention in the Hiroshima prefectural police, said, "It is regrettable that an incident like this occurred. We will have a thorough probe to prevent a recurrence."

Full Article: https://japantoday.com/category/crime/update1-detained-senior-police-officer-commits-suicide-amid-rape-accusations

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Jeez

I know that it's going to be about Japan every time you post something like this and that's weird.

Tenlaar posted...

I know that it's going to be about Japan every time you post something like this and that's weird.

I was expecting Florida. But I've been on this board too much

Wandering__Hero posted...

I was expecting Florida. But I've been on this board too much

Don't worry, no matter where it is users like that claim they knew before entering.

They think it makes them seem clever. It doesn't.

I don't think that noticing your tendency to post stories like this specifically from Japan or finding that odd make me seem clever.

Don't know why anybody would think this is Florida

Tenlaar posted...

I don't think that noticing your tendency to post stories like this specifically from Japan or finding that odd make me seem clever.

Glad we're all agreed that you do not seem clever.

Now shut up or post on topic.

You're being massively disrespectful to me and everyone involved in this story.

The Wire taught me you cannot hang yourself from a doorknob

Wandering__Hero posted...

I was expecting Florida. But I've been on this board too much

Florida would have given them a free vacation, not a jail cell.

So he was guilty

Irony posted...

Don't know why anybody would think this is Florida

A rapey cop and someone dying in police custody? I mean... You can see how someone might think it's possible, if not probable, right?

DnDer posted...

A rapey cop and someone dying in police custody? I mean... You can see how someone might think it's possible, if not probable, right?

tbf Kain's retort was a good one

JuanCarlos1 posted...

So he was guilty

No, that's not how that works. He still deserves due process to prove the allegations out before declaring guilt or innocence.

(As a cop, he deserves a charge/sentence more severe than if a civilian had committed the same crime, though.)

But everyone knows that, in almost every culture, sexual misconduct accusations will follow you much, much longer than sexual misconduct exonerations. Because that's how Google works.

DnDer posted...

A rapey cop and someone dying in police custody? I mean... You can see how someone might think it's possible, if not probable, right?

The cop died in custody.

Irony posted...

The cop died in custody.

Implying that the issue could have been resolved as an... internal affair, behind the blue wall.

But I don't know if policing is as suspect in Japan as it is in America to be that cynical about it.

DnDer posted...

Implying that the issue could have been resolved as an... internal affair, behind the blue wall.

But I don't know if policing is as suspect in Japan as it is in America to be that cynical about it.

To my knowledge they coddle bad cops a lot less and their not AS racist to black people, but their corrupt in other ways

DnDer posted...

But I don't know if policing is as suspect in Japan as it is in America to be that cynical about it.

Hoo boy

Who's gonna tell him?

cool

UnfairRepresent posted...

Glad we're all agreed that you do not seem clever.

Now shut up or post on topic.

You're being massively disrespectful to me and everyone involved in this story.

Why share a negative story? NEXT

TimeForAction posted...

The Wire taught me you cannot hang yourself from a doorknob

He probably tied a knot in one end, tossed it over the top of the door, then shut the door on it.

Source: Worked acute psych for 10 years and someone did that at our facility.

Yeah it says tied to the door rather than doorknob

C_Pain posted...

Why share a negative story? NEXT

It's the current events board

I share current events. Up to you what topics you enter

TimeForAction posted...

The Wire taught me you cannot hang yourself from a doorknob

You can if you care enough. It won't be quick, but it's possible.