OSAKA -- The Osaka District Court sentenced a 51-year-old former junior high school teacher to a suspended 30-month prison term Tuesday for molesting a 13-year-old female pupil last October.
Ginjiro Yamaji was arrested and charged after the student filed a criminal complaint against him the day after the incident, and was subsequently fired from the municipal junior high school he worked at in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture.
In handing down Tuesday's sentence, which was suspended for three years, presiding Judge Tetsushi Yukawa said the act was malicious and the defendant abused his position as a teacher and took advantage of the girl's inability to resist due to her shock at what was happening.