Overview
- The warrant targets the girl's mother in her 20s on suspicion of violating Japan's Child Welfare Act after the child was allegedly made to provide sexual services in Yushima, Tokyo.
- Taiwanese authorities are holding the mother as Japanese police work with visiting Thai police officials on next steps in the cross-border investigation.
- Tokyo police earlier arrested the parlor operator, Masayuki Hosono, on suspicion of violating the Labor Standards Act's minimum-age provision.
- According to investigators, the girl arrived with her mother in late June, was taught sexual services, slept near the shop kitchen, and served about 60 customers over roughly a month.
- Police are examining possible brokers and money flows after part of the shop’s proceeds were transferred to an account in the name of an associate of the mother.