Female School Teacher Who Worked in Sex Industry To Repay Debts Suspended For 6 Months, Says Osaka Prefectural Education Committee.
by Beth on Friday, May 3, 2013
On May 2, the Osaka Prefectural Education Committee announced that a female teacher (29) at a public prefectural high school who had been working in a sex-related trade outside of school hours had been suspended from her post for six months as a punishment. They stated that the teacher had explained “I did it to repay my debts. I thought I would be able to earn a high income over a short period of time, and that I could do it without most people seeing who I was”. The woman resigned voluntarily on the same day. According to the education committee, this is the first case where a teacher had been discovered working in the sex industry and had received punishment.
The committee also stated that the teacher had been working in the sex industry for 105 days, from late October 2012 to early April 2013, and had earned an income of around 1,600,000 yen [approx. $16,454] in that time. In March of this year, an anonymous e-mail came to the attention of the education committee, and the woman was exposed. The teacher had around 2,000,000 yen [approx. $20,548] of credit card loans, and had been working as a “health girl” [women who offer a range of sexual services that does not include sexual intercourse] at a sex shop in Osaka city after work on weekdays and on her days off.
