The Tokyo Family Court has decided to place four former students of Keio University’s department of medicine arrested on rape charges under probation, it was learned Wednesday.
The four youths, all 19, have already “received social punishment in such forms as being expelled from school; they have apologized and made efforts to compensate the victim,” according to presiding Judge Hiroshi Furuta.
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