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Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case (''Joshikōsei konkurīto-zume satsujin-jiken'', 女子高生コンクリート詰め殺人事件) is the crime of murdering '''Junko Furuta''' (古田順子 ''Furuta Junko'') who was concerned a Japan ese girl Murder ed in one of Japan's most infamous Crime s. THE CRIME In November of abducted and held Furuta, a second-year high-school student from Saitama Prefecture in Misato , for 44 days. They kept her captive in the house owned by the parents of one of the other three boys. To forestall a her into posing as one of their girlfriends when the parents were around, but when it became clear that they would not call the police, he dropped this pretext. Junko tried to escape several times, begging more than once with the parents who lived there to help her, but they did nothing, apparently out of fear that Kamisaku would hurt them. He was at the time a low-level Yakuza member 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 Rape d her, beat her, introduced foreign objects into her vagina, made her drink her own urine, inserted Fireworks into her anus, and set them off, forced Junko to Masturbate , and burned her with cigarettes and lighters. (One of the burnings 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 Junko had been imprisoned there, but it is not clear if this means they visited her at different times while she was imprisoned and either raped or abused her. When the boys refused to let her leave, she begged them on several occasions to "kill (her) and get it over with." On 4 January 1989 , using one of the boy's loss at Mah-jongg as a pretext, the four beat 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, or that they believed she had been Malingering . Her corpse was hidden in an 55-gallon drum filled with cement and was disposed in a tract of reclaimed land in Koto Ward . ARREST AND PUNISHMENT The boys were arrested and tried as adults; but, because of Japanese handling of crimes committed by Juveniles , their identities were sealed by the court. Furuta's real name and details about her personal life were reported exhaustively in the media. Kamisaku and his compatriots Pled Guilty to a reduced charge of "committing bodily injury that resulted in death", rather than murder. Kamisaku's parents sold their house for approximately 50 million Yen and paid this as Compensation to Furuta's family. For his participation in the crime, Kamisaku served eight years in a juvenile Prison before he was released, 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 earlier infamy. Kamisaku was sentenced to seven years in prison for the beating. Furuta's parents were dismayed by the sentences received by their daughter's killers, and enjoined a Civil Suit against the parents of the boy whose house they were staying in. 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.) MEDIA The case drew nationwide attention towards the sentencing and Rehabilitation of youthful offenders, especially in the context of youths tried as adults, and became a Media sensation. At least two Japanese-language books have been written about the incident. An Exploitative Film , ''Joshikōsei konkurīto-zume satsujin-jiken'' (女子高生コンクリート詰め殺人事件 ''Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case''), was made about the incident by director Katsuya Matsumura in 1995 . Another film, '' Concrete '' (コンクリート) aka ''Schoolgirl in Cement'', directed by Hiromu Nakamura , was made in 2004 and based on one of the books written about the incident. In addition, a graphic, also-exploitative Manga by Waita Uziga (which Fiction alized some of the details) was released the same year under the title ''Shin Gendai Ryōkiden'' (真 現代猟奇伝 ''Modern-Day True-to-Life Stories of the Bizarre''). REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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