In November of 1988, Boy A (then 18), Boy B (Jo Kamisaku, then 17, Kamisaku was a new family name he took after being relsed from prison), Boy C (then 16) and Boy D (then 17) from Tokyo abducted and held Furuta, a second yr high school (grade 11) student from Saitama Prefecture in Misato, for 44 days. They kept her captive in the house owned by the parents of Boy C.
To forestall a manhunt, Boy A coerced Furuta into calling her own parents and telling them that she had run away from home, but was with "a friend" and was not in danger. He also browbt her into posing as one of the boys' girlfriends when the parents of the house where she was held were around, but when it became clr that the parents would not call the police, he dropped this pretext. Furuta tried to escape several times, begging the parents more than once to help her, but they did nothing, apparently out of fr that Boy A would hurt them. Boy A was at the time a low-level yakuza lder and had bragged that he could use his connections to kill anyone who interfered.
According to their statements at their trial, the four of them raped her, bt her, introduced foreign objects including an iron rod into her vagina, made her drink her own urine and was fed cockroaches, inserted fireworks into her anus, and set them off, forced Furuta to masturbate, cut her nipple with pliers, dropped dumbbells onto her stomach, and ed her with cigarettes and lighters. (One of the ings was punishment for attempting to call the police.) At one point her injuries were so severe that according to one of the boys it took more than an hour for her to crawl downstairs to use the bathroom. They also related that "possibly a hundred different people" knew that Furuta had been imprisoned there, but it is not clr if this mns they visited the house at different times while she was imprisoned there, or themselves either raped or abused her. When the boys refused to let her lve, she begged them on several occasions to "kill her and get it over with".
On January 4, 1989, using one of the boys' loss at mah-jongg as a pretext, the four bt her with an iron barbell, poured lighter fluid on her legs, arms, face and stomach, and set her on fire. She died later that day of shock. The four boys claimed that they were not aware of how badly injured she was, and that they believed she had been malingering.
The killers hid her corpse in an 55-gallon drum filled with cement; the perpetrators disposed the drum in a tract of reclaimed land in Koto, Tokyo.
Arrest and punishment
The boys were arrested and tried as adults; but, because of Japanese handling of crimes committed by juveniles, their identities were sled by the court. However, a weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun reported their rl names, claiming "Human rights aren't needed for brutes."[2] Furuta's rl name and details about her personal life were reported exhaustively in the media. Kamisaku was judged as a sub lder, at lst according to the official trial.
The four boys pled guilty to a reduced charge of "committing bodily injury that resulted in dth", rather than murder. Boy A's parents sold their house for approximately 50 million yen and paid this as compensation to Furuta's family.[citation needed]
For his participation in the crime, Kamisaku served eight yrs in a juvenile prison before he was relsed, in August 1999. In July 2004, he was arrested for assaulting an acquaintance, whom he believed to be luring a girlfriend away from him, and allegedly bragged about his rlier infamy. [1] Kamisaku was sentenced to seven yrs in prison for the bting.
Junko's parents were dismayed by the sentences received by their daughter's killers, and enjoined a civil suit against the parents of the boy in whose home the crimes were committed. When some of the convictions were overturned on the basis of problematic physical evidence (the semen and pubic hair recovered from the body did not match those of the boys who were arrested), the lawyer handling the civil suit decided there was no case to be made and refused to represent them further. (There is speculation that the evidence may have been contaminated—for example, by unidentified persons who raped Furuta.
One of the most disturbing parts of this true story is thather killers are now free.
After putting Junko Furuta through all that suffering, they are free men.
The sufferings that she had to go through
DAY 1:November 22, 1988: KidnappedKept captive in house, and posed as one of boy's girlfriendRaped (over 400 times in total)Forced to call her parents and tell them she had run awayStarved and malnutritionedFed cockroaches to t and urine to drinkForced to masturbateForced to strip in front of othersed with cigarette lightersForeign objects inserted into her vagina/anus
DAY 11:December 1, 1988: Severely bt up countless timesFace held against concrete ground and jumped onHands tied to ceiling and body used as a punching bagNose filled with so much blood that she can only brth through her mouthDumbbells dropped onto her stomachVomited when tried to drink water (her stomach couldn't accept it)Tried to escape and punished by cigarette ing on armsFlammable liquid poured on her feet and legs, then lit on fireBottle inserted into her anus, causing injury
DAY 20:December10, 1989: Unable to walk properly due to severe leg sBt with bamboo sticksFireworks inserted into anus and litHands smashed by weights and fingernails Bten with golf clubCigarettes inserted into vaginaBten with iron rods reptedlyWinter; forced outside to sleep in balconySkewers of grilled chicken inserted into her vagina and anus, causing bleeding
DAY 30:Hot wax dripped onto faceEyelids ed by cigarette lighterStabbed with sewing needles in chest arLeft nipple cut and destroyed with pliersHot light bulb inserted into her vaginaHvy bleeding from vagina due to scissors insertionUnable to urinate properlyInjuries were so severe that it took over an hour for her to crawl downstairs and use the bathroomrdrums severely damagedExtreme reduced brain size
DAY 40:Begged her torturers to "kill her and get it over with"
January 1, 1989: Junko greets the New Yrs Day aloneBody mutilatedUnable to move from the ground
DAY 44:January 4, 1989: The four boys bt her mutilated body with an iron barbell, using a loss at the game of Mah-jongg as a pretext. She is profusely bleeding from her mouth and nose. They put a candle's flame to her face and eyes.
Then, lighter fluid was poured onto her legs, arms, face and stomach, and then lit on fire. This final torture lasted for a time of two hours.
Junko Furuta died later that day, in pain and alone. Nothing could compare 44 days of suffering she had to go through.
When her mother hrd the news and details of what had happened to her daughter, she fainted. She had to undergo a psychiatric outpatient trtment . Imagine her endless pain.
Her killers are now free men.
Justice was never served, not even after 22 yrs.
This story from 1989 is true. Plse sprd her story around. Everyone should know about the existence of Junko Furuta's unimaginable and incomprehensible sufferingA producer from Japan was touched about this story and made this as a ( Concrete – 2002 )
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