On June 26, 2014, in Sasebo, Japan, a 15-year-old girl – whose name has been withheld from the public – hacked off a 15-yrear-old female friend’s head and cut open her belly. Afterwards, the killer posted photos and descriptions of the murder on an internet message board. She was quickly discovered and arrested. She confessed to police: “I wanted to kill someone. I bought tools by myself.” She expressed an interest in dissecting a human and it is thought she first experimented on a cat, following instructions in a medical textbook.
The day before the murder her father – whom she had
assaulted with a baseball bat three months earlier – had informed the
daughter’s psychiatrist that the girl had told her step-mother she “wanted to
kill someone,” and requested she be hospitalized. The psychiatrist did not
comply with the request.
The father issued a public statements apologizing to the
victim’s family for his daughter’s crime, saying it “can never be forgiven for
any reason or cause.” He added that he “was losing his confidence in his
ability to continue living, as (the crime) cannot be compensated” even with his
own life. On October 5, 2015, at the age of 53, he committed suicide by
hanging.
[Sources of facts: Wikipedia; “Dad of alleged schoolgirl
murderer dies in apparent suicide in Sasebo,” The Japan Times, Oct 6, 2014]
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