Catching a Pervert
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
An investigation by BBC Eye exposes the men profiting from an ugly business of sexual assault for sale.
We find websites selling thousands of videos of men sexually abusing women on trains, buses, and other crowded public places across East Asia. You can even order your own tailor-made assault on these sites.
They’re run by a shadowy figure known as “Uncle Qi”. He’s hailed as a guru by an online community of perverts. But who is he?
The hunt takes Assignment to Japan, where sexual assault in public is known as "Chikan". We take you inside this dark and twisted world to hear from the perpetrators of these horrific crimes, and meet the women who are fighting back. We visit a “Chikan” sex club where customers can pay to legally grope women in rooms decorated like trains; and we follow plain clothes police searching for sexual predators on Japan’s metro.
The investigation goes undercover to expose the identity of the men running these websites who are cashing in on sexual violence.
Presenter: Zhaoyin Feng BBC Eye Producers: Aliaume Leroy, Shanshan Chen, Zhaoyin Feng Assignment producer: John Murphy Sound mix: Rod Farquhar Production Co-ordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross Assignment Editor: Penny Murphy
This programme deals with matters of a sexual nature which some listeners may find disturbing.
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| 0:23.0 | Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm Zhao Yingfeng and this is Assignment. |
| 0:30.0 | I've been working on a BBC investigation. |
| 0:33.0 | I should warn you it involves matters of a sexual nature which some listeners may find disturbing. |
| 0:42.0 | Picture the scene. |
| 0:43.0 | A man is secretly filming a young woman from behind as she walks down an escalator to a station platform. |
| 0:51.0 | He follows her onto her crowded train. |
| 0:54.0 | Seconds later he abuses her. |
| 0:58.0 | This is just one of thousands of videos available online of men sexually abusing women in public. |
| 1:07.0 | It's a horrific business targeting women often on public transport across East Asia. |
| 1:14.0 | Those behind it are making huge profits. |
| 1:19.0 | This is a story about sexual predators and the women who are fighting back. |
| 1:24.0 | And we go undercover to expose those who are cashing in on this sexual violence. |
| 1:38.0 | The chief is here, the hot dog. |
| 1:41.0 | Japanese police inspector Murakami is on the lookout for sexual abuses on the underground network of Japan's fourth largest city. |
| 1:49.0 | Nagoya. |
| 1:52.0 | There's a guy looking for a target. |
| 1:56.0 | I'd like to follow him to check his behaviour for a bit. |
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