Teen Beheads Mother Then Takes Head To A Net Cafe
May 21st 2007 15:27
I'm back! I had a great time at Thailand but now I'm back to reality. *sigh* I hope you guys missed me. I have a great news article here. Really gruesome and twisted. A bit old though.
Obviously, he really needed that psychiatrist but that didn't help. I wrote about the 11-year old girl who stabbed her classmate. Check out my post if you haven't already.
via Reuters
A 17-year-old Japanese boy suspected of killing and beheading his mother went to an Internet cafe with her head in a bag and watched a music DVD before turning himself in, media reports said on Wednesday.
The teenager, arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of murder, spent about two hours at the cafe and watched a DVD of a hip-hop group in his cubicle, and then took a taxi to a local police station, the reports said.
Media quoted employees of the cafe as saying the youth, a student at a local high school, was carrying a school bag and that one of his hands was wrapped in bandage.
Police in rural Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima prefecture, 200 km (125 miles) north of Tokyo, arrested the teenager after he walked into a police station early on Tuesday carrying a severed human head in a bag. Officers found a beheaded body in the apartment where he lived.
The boy had also cut off his mother's right arm, painted it white and placed in a flowerpot, the Asahi newspaper reported.
The Yomiuri daily quoted the boy as telling investigators that he had severed his mother's head and arm with a saw.
A police spokesman said he could not confirm the reports.
The teen -- who had not been attending school recently and was being treated by a psychiatrist -- told police he killed his mother on Monday evening while she was asleep, media said.
Japan has been shocked by a number of sensational and gruesome crimes by youths in recent years, including the murder and beheading of an 11-year-old boy by a 14-year-old schoolboy in the western city of Kobe in 1997.
In 2004, an 11-year-old schoolgirl stabbed a classmate to death at their school, prompting calls for harsher punishment against juvenile crime.
A bill to lower the age at which minors can be sent to reformatories to 12 from 14 was passed by the lower house of parliament last month. The bill remains controversial, and still needs approval from the upper house before becoming law.
Government statistics show that overall juvenile crime including murder by minors -- those under 20 -- have declined in recent years.
The teenager, arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of murder, spent about two hours at the cafe and watched a DVD of a hip-hop group in his cubicle, and then took a taxi to a local police station, the reports said.
Media quoted employees of the cafe as saying the youth, a student at a local high school, was carrying a school bag and that one of his hands was wrapped in bandage.
Police in rural Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima prefecture, 200 km (125 miles) north of Tokyo, arrested the teenager after he walked into a police station early on Tuesday carrying a severed human head in a bag. Officers found a beheaded body in the apartment where he lived.
The boy had also cut off his mother's right arm, painted it white and placed in a flowerpot, the Asahi newspaper reported.
The Yomiuri daily quoted the boy as telling investigators that he had severed his mother's head and arm with a saw.
A police spokesman said he could not confirm the reports.
The teen -- who had not been attending school recently and was being treated by a psychiatrist -- told police he killed his mother on Monday evening while she was asleep, media said.
Japan has been shocked by a number of sensational and gruesome crimes by youths in recent years, including the murder and beheading of an 11-year-old boy by a 14-year-old schoolboy in the western city of Kobe in 1997.
In 2004, an 11-year-old schoolgirl stabbed a classmate to death at their school, prompting calls for harsher punishment against juvenile crime.
A bill to lower the age at which minors can be sent to reformatories to 12 from 14 was passed by the lower house of parliament last month. The bill remains controversial, and still needs approval from the upper house before becoming law.
Government statistics show that overall juvenile crime including murder by minors -- those under 20 -- have declined in recent years.
Obviously, he really needed that psychiatrist but that didn't help. I wrote about the 11-year old girl who stabbed her classmate. Check out my post if you haven't already.
via Reuters
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Comment by Nickoftime's Sanity Corner
ewwww that would make a good horror flick! Was that guy for real???
Great post!
Take care,
Nick
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Comment by KylieW
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Hey, I just got back from Thailand on the weekend too! I was in Bangkok for a couple of days and then had a week and a half in Phuket. Ahhh....I love Thailand.
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