Since six out of the seven arrested in connection with the crime are still only 16, their identity is protected by the Japanese Juvenile Law, prompting many netizens to call for a change in the penal system
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| Japanese police search the mountain area where the victim’s body was found. |
From Yahoo! Japan:
“We All Assaulted Her Together”: 6 Acquaintances Of 16 Year Old Girl Arrested On Suspicion Of Disposing Of Her Body, Hiroshima Prefecture Police
In the case where an unemployed
girl (16) (Higashi ward, Hiroshima) has been arrested on suspicion of
illegally disposing of a corpse for having abandoned a female body in
the mountains of Kure,
Hiroshima Prefecture, which is assumed to be her former classmate (16),
the prefectural police Kure division investigation team further
arrested 6 people who were acquaintances of the girl on July 17.
Those newly arrested are Seto Taihei (21; unemployed) of Bessho, Yurihama, Tottori Prefecture, two 16 year old boys, both of whom live in Yonehama, Tottori Prefecture, and three 16 year old girls, all of whom live in Kure.
According to the investigation
team, Seto denies the allegations, “It’s true that I went to the scene,
but I didn’t dispose of the corpse”. The remaining five people admit the
charges, with some saying that “we all assaulted her together”.
The six arrested suspects were
complicit with the girl who was previously arrested, and are suspected
of having disposed of a female corpse in the mountains of Tochibaracho,
Kure, in late June.
Police say that the six disposed of the corpse at dawn, the woman got into the car with the girls in downtown Hiroshima, and went to the mountains. Seto is assumed to have been the driver of the car.
The girl who was arrested first
explained that “We headed for the mountains in the car, and I got out of
the car with the victim. I punched, strangled, and murdered her”.
However, the girl and the victim did not hold driver’s licenses, and it
was revealed that the girl had exchanged messages with acquaintances on
the smartphone application LINE, where they had said “We’ll get arrested
too”. The participation of the other six people surfaced during the
course of the investigation.
Regarding her motive for the crime,
the girl testified that “She had been slandering me on LINE”. On July
17, the girl started to talk about “assaulting [the victim] with her
friends”. She said that there was also some money trouble between the
two. Police are investigating the detailed course of events, with the
prospect of pressing charges for murder.
source:http://www.japancrush.com/2013/stories/friends-kill-girl-over-line-message-dump-body-in-mountains.html
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