What do you do when you work for the judiciary branch of the government and you find out that the person who has been sending you freaky stalker-ish emails was a judge? The guy in this pic, Yoshiharu Shimoyama, is a 55-year old judge at the Utsunomiiya District Court. He was convicted of sending over a dozen anonymous sexual emails to a twenty-something year old subordinate.
He must have defended his case pretty well, though, because he only got a six month sentence, and also got it suspended for two years. There is still a possibility that he might be impeached. I mean seriously, this guy presides over the district and family courts there. Would you really want some stalker weirdo dude deciding whether you should have custody of your kid? The Mainichi quotes the presiding judge over his case as saying: "It was a truly shameful crime that ran counter to the people's trust in judges and the judiciary."
Indeed.
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