Kobe Killer Goes Free!!!

[AssKissinger]

Just saw it on the news. Freakoid is out there in a town near you.

A young man was released fro m detention Wednesday, little more than six years after he, as a 14-year-old, severed the head fro m one of his murder victims and placed it on his school gate.

The now 21-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is back on the streets after correctional behavior authorities deemed he will not lapse into a criminal lifestyle.

Taro's thread Hit It Girls

[Big Booger]

Surely the parents of the victim know who and where that boy lives... I'd go public with that information if I were them.

[AssKissinger]

Surely the parents of the victim know who and where that boy lives... I'd go public with that information if I were them.

I don't think they know but if they do they shouldn't go public they should go private and get some real justice.

[Big Booger]

Yeah but think about what a public outcry would do to that little fucker.. everywhere he went people would avoid him like the plague.. it would really fuck his mind royally..

Of course killing him would feel good, but then you'd have to pay the price. At least this way you could cause that kid some serious mental fark, and not have to pay any real consequence.

My wife says a magazine let his identity slip and got into some deep shit over it... And that the people in his neighborhood and at the school should know all about it..


Bastard deserves to rot in a 5X9.

[AssKissinger]

it would really fuck his mind royally..

I think it's a little late for that, don't you? Hey, you don't think he's reading this thread do you? Do you think they kept up his English lessons in the funny farm? Oh shit, I think I hear someone outside...

[Big Booger]

yeah, you have a point but he is supposed to be fixed up now LOL...

Hide the kitchen knives AK.

[tokyojoe]

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My wife says a magazine let his identity slip and got into some deep shit over it... And that the people in his neighborhood and at the school should know all about it..
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I think it was Friday or another weekly rag. From there it kept popping up on the Net.

[Molokidan]

Yeah, I don't feel bad or anything, but that guy's going to make one stupid mistake somewhere and totally get outcast from society. Oh well. . .that's what happens when you mount severed heads on school gates, kiddos!

[Naniwan Kid]

Does anyone still have that pic, jsut in case I run into him...

[AssKissinger]

edited because pic links no longer work

[Pizzicatoblue]

Now that's just sickening...

[Taro Toporific]

:x Now that's just sickening...

And it's time for English lessons so he can join the FG.

Seriously, NHK was saying he was going to work in construction (widely considered as the "last option" for a Japanese).

[DJEB]

I'd like to think that this case made schools do something about bullying, but I'm sure they haven't.

Anyway, before y'all start cowering in the corner, I've been checking the Japan Statistics book in the library every year it comes out for the past 4 years. Violent crime among juveniles is down from its peak in the 80's. Murder has a historical pattern of fluctuating in Japan from about 50 to 150 juvenile murders a year, so you can't really say that in any given year there is an increasing or decreasing trend. If memory serves correctly, '97 was relatively lower for juvenile murders. Nonviolent crime (read: shoplifting) is up and that has made overall crime higher.

Besides, "all violent crime in Tokyo is caused by foreigners". Or so sez Blinky.

[AssKissinger]

Nobody knows where released Kobe serial killer is


Eight years ago, the nation was horrified when a 14-year-old boy was taken into custody in Kobe for murdering a 11-year-old boy and then severing his head. He also killed another child and reportedly attacked 5 or 6 others.

The boy, who used the name Sakakibara in taunting letters to authorities, was sent to a reformatory. Now 22, he is back in society, having been released on parole in March 2004. However, no one seems to know where he is and concerns are growing among the victims' family members.

While he was still in Kanto Medical Juvenile Training School, he told counselors: "If possible, I would like to visit the victims' graves and pray, when I get out. If I could do anything for the families, I'd try my best." But so far, the families have received no apology, nor has the man made any inquiries as to where his victims' graves are.



What is known is that he was released on parole after spending 6 years and 5 months in the reformatory. Authorities said he was living with a host family in the Kanto area and working part-time in a factory nearby.

"Fro m last July, he started sending 5,000 yen to his father every month, asking that it be forwarded to his victims' families as consolation money. In August, he got a new full-time job and that's the last I heard of him," said one man who worked with Sakakibara.

During this period, he had spent some time together with his father. They kept in touch and had a constructive relationship until the end of last year.

On Jan 1 of this year, his parole ended and he was free to go wherever he liked without supervision. He moved into a temple in eastern Japan and wrote thank-you letters to those who had supported him while he was on probation. However, he had to relocate himself again soon after because people around him, who knew about his past, suggested that the postmark on the letters might reveal his whereabouts. Soon after, he moved out of the temple and his current whereabouts are unknown. Even the Ministry of Justice doesn't know where he is.

Koichiro Horikawa, father of one victim, says, "After his release, I was to meet with his parents every three or four months to monitor his progress. However, in January, the father told me that he had not been able to get in touch with his son. I believe that even today, they cannot get a hold of him."

In its Dec 24 edition last year, the Asahi Shimbun ran an article on "Sakakibara." In it, his father said that his son was working full-time for a company and that he felt great sorrow for what he did.

But apparently, "Sakakibara" read the article, and confronted his father, urging him not to tell the media every detail of what he does. His father says that his son has refused to keep in touch.

"Now that I hear he is not seeing his parents, I am concerned about his mental stability," said the mother of one of the victims. "It makes me worry that he might kill again. There is a tremendous fear growing inside of me, since I do not receive any updates on him."

"Having the support of family is the most critical element for rehabilitation in a case such as this," said a psychiatrist. "If this man is not able to create a relationship with his parents, there is a big chance that he is mentally unstable, and that he will relapse."

The court's initial ruling to send the boy to a reformatory was in part due to his unstable relationship with his mother. The court ruled that physical abuse by his mother in the early stage of his life had shaped his extreme personality.

In fact, when he was on probation, the Ministry of Justice focused upon rebuilding the relationship between "Sakakibara" and his parents. Although he met with his father, he refused to meet with his mother.

While he was on probation, the ministry kept an eye on him 24 hours a day, but now "he is completely free and the law no longer requires us to keep tabs on his whereabouts," said a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice.

So the man is completely on his own. However, another psychiatrist comments: "I personally think that he is headed in a good direction now that he is no longer seeing his parents. If he had been put back into the same circumstances as before, he might have relapsed. He is 22 now. There is a bigger chance that he can see the 'problematic' personality of his parents, which he wasn't able to see when he was a young boy. Now that he is able to see things in perspective, it is only natural that he tries to get away fro m his parents."

July 7, 2005

[GuyJean]

Nobody knows where released Kobe serial killer is

Kobe Killer Falls off Map
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fd20050710t2.htm

Now, however, Shukan Post discovers that its not just his name that is a mystery -- it is also his whereabouts. No one, including his parents and legal authorities, seem to know where he is or what he's been doing during the past few months...

A Justice Ministry official shrugs, "We can't confirm whether the parents know about A's whereabouts or not."

But the black hole of information is not sitting well with the victims' parents.

"As long as he isn't meeting with his parents, we worry about whether his psychological condition is stable and the chance of more crimes," says the girl's mother, Keiko Horikawa.

Susumu Oda, a psychology professor at Tezukayama Gakuin University, sees potential danger in the fallout between the killer and his parents.

"If A has not established trust with his parents -- the people he relies on most -- then it's possible his psychological situation will again become unstable. And should this unstable condition continue, we can assume he could again exhibit antisocial behavior," Oda says.....

Shukan Post prays that regardless of where the Kobe killer is, or what he's doing, that he's managed to put his demons behind him.

Didn't realize Shukan Post prayed..

GJ

[Buraku]

The father of an 11-year-old boy who was brutally murdered in Kobe in 1997 by a then 14-year-old schoolboy has expressed disappointment over the increase of hard-hearted people in society, in a message ahead of the ninth anniversary of his son's death.
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20060524p2a00m0na005000c.html

School report on child abuse of 8-year-old leads to man's arrest
SAPPORO -- A case in which a school reported abuse inflicted on an 8-year-old boy, leading to the arrest of his mother's common-law husband, has highlighted the importance of cooperation between local bodies and related organizations in the fight against maltreatment.
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20060612p2a00m0na019000c.html

The 38-year-old man, whose name is being withheld, was arrested in Sapporo's Higashi-ku in May this year on suspicion of inflicting injuries on the boy.