Woman documents complaint alleging sexual assault by Honolulu divorce lawyer

A Waikiki couple has submitted a civil grievance in Circuit Court in opposition to a Honolulu law firm alleging he sexually assaulted the spouse in August and September 2019 right after he was retained as the wife’s divorce law firm.

Miyoko Shitara filed a law enforcement report Feb. 7, 2020, alleging sexual assault, which includes rape, but had not listened to again from police or the prosecutor’s business office until finally the Honolulu Star-Advertiser inquired about the scenario.

The 57-year-previous female and her spouse, Kazuhiko Shitara, are suing Gary G. Singh, aka G. Gary Singh, a felony protection, immigration and loved ones regulation lawyer, for actions allegedly dedicated two decades back.

The lawsuit was submitted Aug. 1, just just before the statute of restrictions expired.

The Shitaras’ law firm,
Andrew Stewart, said Miyoko Shitara did not right away file a police report for the reason that “she was intimidated and terrified to report it to any person.”

Honolulu Police Section spokeswoman Michelle Yu stated Aug. 18 that the situation is continue to ongoing with HPD.

When requested how long it commonly takes for these an investigation due to the fact the report was produced 1-1/2 many years ago, she claimed, “It can choose a when. The situations for just about every circumstance differ widely.”

That same working day, an HPD detective emailed Stewart pertaining to his client’s sexual assault report.

Singh’s lawyer, Carl Osaki, said, “The allegations of assault and conversion that are produced in opposition to Mr. Singh are not legitimate. Mr. Singh will protect versus these bogus allegations.”

The criticism alleges Singh told Shitara to meet him Aug. 18, 2019, at a bar wherever he experienced drinks, then drove her to a vacant Makiki condominium, where by he forcefully groped her and tried out to power her to kiss him.

She instructed him to stop but he did not, the grievance suggests, and laughed, expressing, “You are challenging up for a career and money, proper? I could seek the services of you at my workplace, and you could are living out of my condominium.”

Singh filed a divorce petition Aug. 19, 2019, on her behalf.

On Sept. 1, 2019, he went to the couple’s Waikiki condominium, purportedly to see it just before appraisal for divorce proceedings.

There he allegedly restrained her and raped her two times.

Singh allegedly took some of the husband’s possessions, saved them at his home and told Shitara it was to negotiate the divorce and that he would afterwards return it.

The pair reconciled, and when Shitara questioned for the items back, Singh demanded $15,000 in remaining attorney’s costs.

She compensated it, but Singh allegedly failed to return the items, until eventually an legal professional was used to retrieve the residence, Stewart claimed.

The complaint alleges this quantities to conversion — wrongfully depriving an individual of their house with out justification or
authorization.

Singh speaks Japanese and signifies a great deal of Japanese ladies submitting for divorce, Stewart stated. “I hope it is an isolated incident,” he claimed. “If there are other victims, they should really occur forward.”