According to Japanese media reports on February 4, in the trial of a bizarre kidnapping case in 2023, a 28-year-old man from Iwate Prefecture was found guilty of abducting a 16-year-old female high school student in the Nagano Prefecture's Chushin area, and was sentenced to 2 years in prison with a 4-year suspension yesterday.
Accused of kidnapping the minor is 28-year-old Hiroo Chiba, an unemployed man from Oshu City, Iwate Prefecture.
According to the indictment, the Chiba defendant met a 16-year-old female high school student living in Omachi City through social networking sites in August 2023, and soon after, she said to the female high school student, "Let's elope together."
Then, without the consent of the girl's family, the female high school student was taken away, first to the defendant's hometown in Iwate Prefecture, and then to rent an apartment in Sendai City.
On the morning of October 29, Nagano Prefectural Police investigators found the female high school student living with a man in this apartment in Sendai, and it is reported that the female high school student had been forced to sleep in this apartment for about one month.
In the public trial of the verdict on February 1, Judge Kenichi Nagai of the Matsumoto District Court said, "The consequences of this crime are undoubtedly serious, considering the insecurity of the girls not being able to go to school for two months, the uneasiness of being alone in an unfamiliar place, and the pain that the parents of the minors endure." “
"As an adult who is one round older than a high school girl (12 years old), the defendant should have been deeply aware of how unreasonable his behavior was, but he took the minor away without thinking about it for a moment, which was extremely selfish. ”
Later, the judge also said: "The crime was committed by the recklessness and selfishness of the defendant, not by malice." Considering that the two had previously been in a relationship, the defendant had now shown remorse and apology, and it was appropriate to give him a chance to start over in society. ”
The Chiba defendant pleaded guilty to all the charges of the prosecution and was sentenced to 2 years in prison with a 4-year reprieve!
Finally, when the judge said, "I hope you will keep the apology in your heart and continue to live," the Chiba defendant nodded in agreement with tears in his eyes.
According to the defense attorneys of the Chiba defendants, they do not intend to file an appeal.
It's true that this sentence of 2 years in prison with a 4-year suspension is still relatively light, and I always feel that the defendant has read too many comics to have the idea of abducting a girl like this, but as a female high school student, I met on the Internet...... What kind of stupid Bai Tian is so easy for people to abduct and leave?
And after living together for nearly 2 months, unspeakable things must have happened, and fortunately, this time the woman did not sue for compensation for related crimes, otherwise it would not be as simple as sentencing 2 years for the crime of "kidnapping".
Japanese netizens commented:
"...... It's really incomprehensible that they can do such a thing at the age of 28. The verdict is too lenient. Isn't it because you read too many comics that you elope with underage children? ......“
"Did the sentence allow a suspended sentence because it didn't involve nasty behavior or sexual coercion? Although the behavior is naïve and constitutes a crime, it is hoped that the psychological condition and family environment of the victim will be investigated in order to enlighten and educate young people......"
Reports about female high school students being abducted are not uncommon, and this abduction case in 2019 is the most bizarre!
On November 28, 2019, Hiroaki Hankami of Honjo City, Saitama Prefecture, was arrested on suspicion of abducting underage girls. After rescuing the two abducted girls, the police found that they had been "locked up" in the house for two months but had been learning real estate knowledge?
It is reported that at the beginning, several Japanese girls also posted information on the Internet, and then received a message from a middle-aged man: "Come to Saitama, if you are willing to study, I can support you." "
These girls were touched by this sentence and said that their hearts were moved, but they never imagined that they would be greeted in Saitama by an endless sea of learning!!
According to media reports, the abducted girl is actually doing well...
They live in empty houses held by the suspects, each with their own room, no restrictions on their personal freedom, free access to the house and the surrounding area, etc.
Unlike other crimes, Hiroaki Sakagami didn't even confiscate their phones, and the high school girls went online whenever they wanted, chatted whenever they wanted, and the only time they were disabled was during exams.
Girls who ran away from home in order to escape from life still have to study-exam-study-exam-exam just like they did at school.
It is reported that Hiroaki Sakagami, a 37-year-old real estate practitioner, sees runaway girls online and recruits them to come to him.
He would provide them with food and housing, give them real estate-related study books to read, and take regular quizzes, in an effort to make them become experts in selling houses in Saitama Prefecture.
This reminds me of the director of the Sanxuan family in the Japanese drama "The Woman Who Sold the House", who is really a good hand in the real estate sales industry! "There is no house I can't sell!" is her symbol, through a variety of methods that ordinary real estate owners can't think of, so that buyers and sellers can reach an agreement and happily buy the house.
Hiroaki Sakagami probably wants to cultivate such talents. In his confession, he said that the reason for the "abduction" was to wait for him to come out and start a company in the future, and there would be a group of real estate elites and sales queens immediately.
So, after a few days of leaving their families and running to freedom, the girls returned to the ocean of knowledge. Perhaps the truth in this world is that justice may be late, but exams will not be absent.
After the case was exposed, although I was pleased to have rescued the two girls, I also regretted that there were two missing "future Sanxuan families" in Saitama County. If you want to say how this case was exposed, it is really a small matter that determines success or failure.
Hiroaki Sakagami asked the two girls to write a letter and send it home to report their safety, and both girls sent home letters such as "don't worry about me". However, the letter received by a young girl whose hometown is in Hyogo Prefecture is postmarked from Ibaraki Prefecture.
Originally, she was a girl from Saitama Prefecture, and the letters she received at home were also sent from other prefectures in the Kanto region.
He was originally living in Saitama but sent the letter from another place, and the police believed that the suspect was disrupting the line of sight and obstructing the police investigation.
However, in the end, the police succeeded in solving the case and sent the two girls home.
Some netizens think that although they were abducted, they feel that under the pressure of 996 for a long time, this may not be bad.
"Thinking about the living conditions provided by Hiroaki Sakagami,
・If you want to study, you will be provided with accommodation
・3 meals a day
・I give living expenses
・I can use it as I like willingly
・Freedom to go out
・Lapping work assignment
・Tell your parents to write a letter to report that they are safe
I think it's already better than most people's lives. ”
No matter how harsh the punishment methods of the law are, and the evil of human nature is difficult to prevent, there will always be people who take risks to test the bottom line of the law for their own desires. The abduction cases that occur every year are one after another, which is worrying and really chilling to watch. We can't control the distorted hearts of those criminals, so we have to instill prevention knowledge in children over and over again, and the children will get bored after talking about it for a long time.
So why don't you think about why these children are abducted so easily, and even prefer to go out and treat the girl as a god, so parents may wish to listen to the children's voices, so that the children can grow up happily is far more gratifying than punishing the abductors afterwards.