Japanese teen escapes 2-year captivity in AKihabara, Tokyo - Polidicks

[quote=Yahoo News]TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police early Monday caught a 23-year-old man who had been sought since a teenage girl escaped his apartment after being held captive for nearly two years. The girl's disappearance from her hometown in Saitama, near Tokyo, when she was just 13, was major news in Japan at the time. Police said the now-15-year-old girl escaped from suspect Kabu Terauchi's apartment in downtown Tokyo on Sunday while he was shopping in Akihabara, a district known for technology and comic book geeks. Saitama police said the girl, whose name was withheld because she is a minor, told investigators that she escaped when her captor forgot to lock the door.[/quote] [url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/girl-rescued-escaping-2-confinement-063047958.html]Source[/url]

This isn't the first time something similar happened in Japan right? I remember something about a teen girl who was tortured for a few years.

[quote]told investigators that she escaped when her captor forgot to lock the door.[/quote] [quote]He was bleeding from the neck from a minor self-inflicted injury as a result of a failed suicide attempt.[/quote] And this guy graduated from university.

[QUOTE=dookster;50022516]This isn't the first time something similar happened in Japan right? I remember something about a teen girl who was tortured for a few years.[/QUOTE] The murder of Junko Furuta. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta[/url] Horrible stuff.

[QUOTE=dookster;50022516]This isn't the first time something similar happened in Japan right? I remember something about a teen girl who was tortured for a few years.[/QUOTE] In this case though, said perpetrator just kept a close eye on her [quote]She was always locked inside and closely watched, but was not tied up or put in chains. He sometimes took her outside but always closely watched her, according to police.[/quote] creepy nonetheless

[QUOTE=Omilinon;50022562]The murder of Junko Furuta. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta[/url] [/QUOTE] Sadly, I have to add that "horrible" doesn't even encompass a tenth of the sheer terrifying gruesome sickening horror that girl has went through. I have some resistance to sickening stuff, but I read the entire story of what Junko had went through some time ago, and that managed to drop a brick in my stomach for the rest of the day...

Whoops. :snip:

[QUOTE=GabrielWB;50022604]Sadly, I have to add that "horrible" doesn't even encompass a tenth of the sheer terrifying gruesome sickening horror that girl has went through. I have some resistance to sickening stuff, but I read the entire story of what Junko had went through some time ago, and that managed to drop a brick in my stomach for the rest of the day...[/QUOTE] my blood boils every time this story is brought up [quote]To forestall a manhunt, the kidnappers forced Furuta to call her parents and tell them that she had run away from home, but was with “a friend” and was not in danger. This would prolong the time they had to carry on their game of torture and abuse. They also browbeat her into posing as one of the boys’ girlfriends when the parents of the house where she was held were around. Then the beatings and rape began. They forced her to masturbate while the boys watched. At least four of the boys took turns raping her, and she was raped up to 400 times a day. Besides the usual rape and beatings, the boys mutilated her genitals with firecrackers and pliers. They starved her, forced her to eat cockroaches and drink her own urine, and they poured hot wax on her face. They dropped heavy weights on her stomach and burned her with cigarettes. They stabbed her chest with sewing needles and stuck lit firecrackers inside her mouth, ears and anus to watch them explode. They burned her eyelids and face with cigarettes and lighters (one of the burnings was punishment for attempting to call the police). They shoved an iron rod and scalding light bulbs in her vagina, causing heavy bleeding and made it difficult for her to urinate properly. They tore off one of her nipples with a pair of pliers. At one point her injuries were so severe that according to one of the boys it her took more than half an hour for her to crawl downstairs to use the bathroom to urinate. Her eardrums were also severely injured, probably due to fireworks going off in close proximity. Once the boys decided that they had enough fun for the day, the battered and bruised Junko was forced to sleep on an outdoor balcony, in little to no clothing during the harsh Tokyo winter. Shivering and suffering from severe internal and external injuries, it is incredible that her body could even withstand the extreme circumstances it was subjected to. Despite being extremely weak due to starvation and possibly suffering from broken bones and internal bleeding, Junko Furata made a heroic attempt to escape and almost reached a telephone. However, one of the boys caught her before she could call for help. To punish her, the boys hung Junko up like a punching bag and took turns beating her until blood was coming out of her mouth. Her organs were so badly damaged that trying to drink water made her vomit immediately. They held her face against a concrete floor and jumped on her, causing her to lose the ability to breathe through her nose. Finally, they poured a flammable liquid on her arms and legs and set Junko on fire as punishment for trying to escape. Meanwhile, the parents of the boy who was living in the house knew about everything, yet did not intervene nor tell the authorities because they claimed they feared their son and his group too much to do so. It’s been said that many people knew that the girl was being held captive at the family’s home, but they too, were too frightened to help her. By New Year’s Day Junko was severely injured and incapable of moving. Her body was badly mutilated, bones were broken, and there was the potential of internal organ damage due to the repeated rapes, beatings, and other depraved acts carried out by the boys. On January 5, 1989 one of the boys got angry after losing a game of mah-jong and decided to take his aggression out on his human punching bag. He attacked Junko with a barbell, beating her torso until she bled from her mouth again. She went into convulsions, but the boys thought she was faking and lit her on fire, allegedly allowing it to burn for two hours before putting it out. Junko Furuta died a few hours later. Her death was, undoubtedly, among the most painful individual deaths caused by human beings in the history of mankind.[/quote] they kidnapped, raped, tortured, and killed a girl and got away with a few years in juvie and are all out in the streets today what a shithole of a justice system. hopefully the law stopped taking fat stacks from organized crime and this guy gets a proper sentence

Akihabara....... Why does that not suprise me. :v: I Remember seeing this in the news when she went missing actually. You see posters in train stations of missing school girls all the time. There was actually one missing persons poster (kidnapped) the prefectual police had in the station near my old home when I lived in the Kanto area, had a picture of a 7 year-old girl and a sketch of what she'd look like today... At the age of 21. I can't fathom the suffering she'd have endured for 14+ years provided she was still alive.

holy fuck put a warning on that post that's one of the most horrifying things I've ever read. I don't think the article in the op really can be compared to that level of brutality.

[QUOTE=dookster;50022516]This isn't the first time something similar happened in Japan right? I remember something about a teen girl who was tortured for a few years.[/QUOTE] This stuff happens basically everywhere. No country is without its share of monsters.

[QUOTE=Jund;50022730]my blood boils every time this story is brought up they kidnapped, raped, tortured, and killed a girl and got away with a few years in juvie and are all out in the streets today what a shithole of a justice system. hopefully the law stopped taking fat stacks from organized crime and this guy gets a proper sentence[/QUOTE] Chances are in that case they didn't face the death penalty because they were minors. Japan still employs the death penalty, had they been adults they'd be on death row. This guy may end up there too.

[QUOTE=Jund;50022730]my blood boils every time this story is brought up they kidnapped, raped, tortured, and killed a girl and got away with a few years in juvie and are all out in the streets today what a shithole of a justice system. hopefully the law stopped taking fat stacks from organized crime and this guy gets a proper sentence[/QUOTE] Where is this taken from? Was this the parents' account or what? It's just pretty specific and "editorialized". I don't doubt it was horrific, I'm just doubting the legitimacy of this account.

[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;50022913]Where is this taken from? Was this the parents' account or what? It's just pretty specific and "editorialized". I don't doubt it was horrific, I'm just doubting the legitimacy of this account.[/QUOTE] It could be based off confessions or on the accounts of the parents.

[QUOTE=DaCommie1;50022865]Chances are in that case they didn't face the death penalty because they were minors. Japan still employs the death penalty, had they been adults they'd be on death row. This guy may end up there too.[/QUOTE] doubt it japan has a high conviction rate but very lenient sentencing. if you plead guilty and cry crocodile tears during the trial you can get under 10 years for murder and only a few years for rape the yakuza basically controlled the courts during the end of 20th century as well. and it was only recently that the courts got rid of the statute of limitation for murder, which no doubt let a lot of scum walk free

Japan has one of the worst criminal justice systems of the developed world. I'd take a good old boys system over japan's guilty until proven guilty system. basically the accused party is presumed guilty from the get go and once you're presumed guilty no amount of lawyering up can save you

[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;50022913]Where is this taken from? Was this the parents' account or what? It's just pretty specific and "editorialized". I don't doubt it was horrific, I'm just doubting the legitimacy of this account.[/QUOTE] [url]http://web.archive.org/web/20121208052419/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/blog/article/japanese-horror-story-the-torture-of-junko-furuta/index.html[/url] (sources on page 2) [url]http://swordandscale.com/the-torture-of-junko-furuta/[/url] court docs [url]http://www.courts.go.jp/app/files/hanrei_jp/261/020261_hanrei.pdf[/url] [url]http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.courts.go.jp%2Fhanrei%2Fpdf%2FAA7836E2A5E1E03449256CFA0007BACA.pdf&act=url[/url] [editline]28th March 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=butre;50022980]Japan has one of the worst criminal justice systems of the developed world. I'd take a good old boys system over japan's guilty until proven guilty system. basically the accused party is presumed guilty from the get go and once you're presumed guilty no amount of lawyering up can save you[/QUOTE] at the same time it was (and still is to some extent) preferable to get a few years for heinous crimes than to risk getting life or the chair though the fact that they did away with the jury system in the 40s really helped in buying out judges

[QUOTE=Jund;50022730]my blood boils every time this story is brought up they kidnapped, raped, tortured, and killed a girl and got away with a few years in juvie and are all out in the streets today what a shithole of a justice system. hopefully the law stopped taking fat stacks from organized crime and this guy gets a proper sentence[/QUOTE] I regret reading that, I feel really uncomfortable now.

Hope they hang the bastard for it.

[QUOTE=download;50023790]Hope they hang the bastard for it.[/QUOTE] I was going to make a sarcastic reply saying "I hope they take this sick monster to court and convict him with a fair trial" but some of the other posts in this thread make it seem like that's not going to happen in Japan.

[QUOTE=download;50023790]Hope they hang the bastard for it.[/QUOTE] This guy will probably spend less time in prison than his victim spent in his captivity.

[QUOTE=ScottyWired;50023813]I was going to make a sarcastic reply saying "I hope they take this sick monster to court and convict him with a fair trial" but some of the other posts in this thread make it seem like that's not going to happen in Japan.[/QUOTE] afaik they do lay judges now which allow selected citizens to look at evidence and question people, but the actual judge(s) still have the final say on the verdict