15-year-old girl arrested for beheading classmate in Sasebo (JAPAN)

[yuiyoshida]

SASEBO JAPAN—

Police in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, said Sunday they have arrested a 15-year-old high school girl on suspicion of killing a classmate.

According to police, the victim, Aiwa Matsuo, also 15, was visiting the suspect at her apartment when the incident occurred at around 8 p.m. Saturday. TBS quoted police as saying the suspect struck Matsuo on the back of the head more than 10 times with a blunt instrument and strangled her as well. Police said Matsuo’s head had been severed with a large knife and her left hand cut off.

At around 11 p.m., Matsuo’s parents contacted police after their daughter failed to return home. She had told them earlier that she was going to her friend’s place and texted them at about 7 p.m. to say she was about to leave for home.

Police found Matsuo’s body early Sunday morning, lying on the suspect’s bed.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/15-year-old-girl-arrested-for-killing-classmate-in-sasebo

This girl has some serious issues

More here: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/27/national/sasebo-teen-held-allegedly-killing-high-school-friend/#.U9V9l0DNvMo

[hlthe2b]

1. I'm curious how Japan deals with adolecents who commit horrific violent crimes....

Do they try them as "adults"? Do they typically offer mental illness defenses?

[yuiyoshida]

3. I really don't know...

I believe Japan is one of the few countries that still have the death sentence, but not saying this will happen to her. She will probably end up in some kind of psychiatric hospital but who knows.

[HoneychildMooseMoss]

7. No, up to 19 years old is considered a juvenile offender in Japan

Their names are never publicized in newspapers.

This is very similar to the "Jun-kun Satsujin Jiken" incident that happened in Kobe in 1997-- a 14-year-old chopped off the head of an 11-year-old (and killed another kid, and seriously wounded 3 others), and the perpetrator was sentenced to juvenile hall until reaching the age of 20. However, his family were ordered to pay restitution to the families of his victims.

[AngryAmish]

11. Usually they are killed and the body thrown down a well.

It gets troublesome when weird videotapes start sppearing.

[shenmue]

2. Oh Lord

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. And Mommy and Daddy were ...where?

" See? THIS is why you don't have any friends!"

[betsuni]

5. Evidently the suspect's mother died last year and her father remarried

this spring and the girl began living by herself at the start of the new school year in April.

[HoneychildMooseMoss]

8. Wow, it's extremely rare for a 15-year-old Japanese girl

to be living on her own.

[betsuni]

9. Now they say she's sixteen and the victim was fifteen.

That makes more sense. I've heard of high school students living alone when they get into a good school that's far from home. The family would have to be pretty well-off to afford it I would think.

[smirkymonkey]

6. WTF?

15 years old? God, how horrific.

[betsuni]

10. News says she wanted to find out what killing someone was like.

She took her victim shopping first. I think she was going to cut up the body to dispose of it but it was too much work. I just watched "Rear Window" the other night. "How do you even start to cut up a human body?" Yuck yuck yuck yuck.