Four teens held for bullying assault

Police said Thursday they have arrested four teenage boys in Tokyo on suspicion of beating a 17-year-old male schoolmate at a park before stripping and taking nude photos of him.

Police were questioning the four 17- and 18-year-old boys about the assault. The victim said he was hit in the face and stomach in a park in Musashino in western Tokyo in the evening of Nov. 9. He was then stripped and photographed.

The teen was only slightly injured, but is suffering from shock, which police attribute to his being assaulted in front of a group of girls from his school. He has not attended school since the attack, police said.

Two days before the attack, the boy told the school about the abuse. The school suspended one of the boys who was arrested and asked the bullied teen to stay home.