17 Year Old Boy Convicted of Beheading His Mother the Day Before Her Birthday
On Tuesday, in a town about 125 miles from Tokyo, Japan, a teenage boy walked into a police station carrying none other than his mother's severed head in a bag. The police found a headless body laying on a futon in the boy's apartment and later the young man made a statement that he had killed his mother on Monday night (May 14th) while she slept.Apparently the boy had recently been under psychiatric evaluation and had also dropped out of the high school he was attending. A very sad twist in the story is that Tuesday, May, 15th was the Mother's birthday; she would have been 47 years old.
The suspected killer and his younger brother actually lived in an apartment away from the mother so that the two boys could attend local schools. The mother was said to come by and visit on the weekends.
The 17 year old boy is now being held in police custody. There seems to be no clear motivation for the crime at this time, and the boy's name has not yet been released.
However, this is not the first time a tragic act has been committed by a young child in Japan. In 1997, in a Japanese town called Kobe, a 14 year old boy was taken into police custody after murdering and then beheading an 11 year old boy. The 14 year old took the 11 year olds head and placed it outside of a school house (allegedly there was also a vile note found in the mouth).
Because of the Kobe murder the age at which a child could be sent away to jail changed from age 16 to age 14. This change took place in 2001. As early as last month a bill was passed to lower the age to 12 years old.
Japan is a country known for its low crime rates, but these gruesome events involving children have shook the nation. Also crimes of dismemberment seem to be on the rise in Japan. In the past few years there have been several confessions from Japanese citizens of horrific dismemberment crimes. One man confessed to cutting up his mother's body and then placing her parts in concrete pails. A woman confessed to beating her husband to death with a wine bottle and then dismembering his body for easy dumping.
As crime and dismemberment are obviously not unique to Japan, they do seem to be on a steady increase during the past few years.
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