In the dock, Katsuyuki Okuno cut a strange figure as he listened baby-faced, chubby, graying, frightened and seemingly unable to understand what he had done.
"I still love him," the thirty-something told the judge at Tokyo District Court after he was asked about his feelings toward his 13-year-old victim.
As details emerged over the course of the hearing on June 7, however, it was clear that the suspect's feelings for the boy he is accused of abusing were very different.