NAGOYA -- The Nagoya District Court on Thursday sentenced a 36-year-old unemployed woman in Nagoya to a year in prison, suspended for three years, for violating the antistalking law by repeatedly demanding that a male medical doctor have closer relations with her.
"The victim suffered great pain due to this persistent and malicious crime based on a selfish motive," Judge Yutaka Kubo said in handing down the ruling.
Public prosecutors demanded a year in prison. n March, the woman telephoned the doctor 26 times in five days and waited outside his home on two occasions to make her demands, according to the ruling.
The antistalking law took effect in November 2000.