[26-year-old man takes woman in her 70s to multi-purpose toilet and rapes her]

In Nakatsu City, Oita Prefecture, last September, a man who sexually assaulted a woman in her 70s and stole a bag containing cash was sentenced to 8 years in prison by the Oita District Court on the 22nd.

The defendant, Ryuji Sono (26), who was unemployed and living in Nakatsu City, received the prison sentence for the crimes of robbery and non-consensual intercourse. According to the ruling, in September last year, Sono led a woman in her 70s, who was pushing her bicycle in a parking lot in Nakatsu City, into a multipurpose toilet, where he sexually assaulted her and stole a bag containing 59,000 yen in cash and a cash card.