Monday, October 10, 2011

Junko Furuta: The Girl Who Went through 44 days of Torture



This is a true story that happened in Japan in 1988.A 17 year old girl named Furuta Junko, was kidnapped and then tortured by 4 boys with very unimaginable way and finally death after 44 days.


These horrifying things done to Junko Furuta had been collected through the Japanese court trial of the case, and blogs from 1989. They show the pain that Junko Furuta had to endure before she was finally dead. All this had happened to her while she was still alive. They are disturbing, but the truth.
All of this had happened.
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DAY 1: November 22, 1988: Kidnapped
Kept captive in house, and posed as one of boy’s girlfriend
Raped (over 400 times in total)
Forced to call her parents and tell them she had run away
Starved and malnutritioned
Fed cockroaches to eat and urine to drink
Forced to masturbate
Forced to strip in front of others
Burned with cigarette lighters
Foreign objects inserted into her vagina/anus
DAY 11: December 1, 1988: Severely beat up countless times
Face held against concrete ground and jumped on
Hands tied to ceiling and body used as a punching bag
Nose filled with so much blood that she can only breath through her mouth
Dumbbells dropped onto her stomach
Vomited when tried to drink water (her stomach couldn’t accept it)
Tried to escape and punished by cigarette burning on arms
Flammable liquid poured on her feet and legs, then lit on fire
Bottle inserted into her anus, causing injury
DAY 20: December10, 1988: Unable to walk properly due to severe leg burns
Beat with bamboo sticks
Fireworks inserted into anus and lit
Hands smashed by weights and fingernails kracked
Beaten with golf club
Cigarettes inserted into vagina
Beaten with iron rods repeatedly
Winter; forced outside to sleep in balcony
Skewers of grilled chicken inserted into her vagina and anus, causing bleeding
DAY 30: Hot wax dripped onto face
Eyelids burned by cigarette lighter
Stabbed with sewing needles in chest area
Left nipple cut and destroyed with pliers
Hot light bulb inserted into her vagina
Heavy bleeding from vagina due to scissors insertion
Unable to urinate properly
Injuries were so severe that it took over an hour for her to crawl downstairs and use the bathroom
Eardrums severely damaged
Extreme reduced brain size
DAY 40: Begged her torturers to “kill her and get it over with”
January 1, 1989: Junko greets the New Years Day alone
Body mutilated
Unable to move from the ground
DAY 44: January 4, 1989: The four boys beat 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 heard the news and details of what had happened to her daughter, she fainted. She had to undergo a psychiatric outpatient treatment . Imagine her endless pain.

Her killers are now free men. Justice was never served, not even after 20 years.
They deserve a punishment much greater than they had put upon Furuta, for putting an innocent girl through the most unbearable suffering.


The crime:
On November 25, 1988, four boys, including Jō Kamisaku, then 17 (Kamisaku was a new family name he took after being released from prison), abducted and held Furuta, a second-year high school (11th grade) student from Misato, Saitama Prefecture, for 44 days. They kept her captive in the house owned by the parents of Kamisaku, located in the Ayase district of Adachi, Tokyo.

To forestall a manhunt, one of them forced 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 browbeat her into posing as the girlfriend of one of the boys when his (Kamisaku's) parents were around, but when he was sure they would not call the police, he dropped the pretext. Furuta tried to escape several times, begging the parents to help her, but they did nothing, apparently out of fear that Yokoyama would hurt them. Yokoyama was at the time a low-level yakuza leader 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, beat 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 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 Furuta had been imprisoned there, but it is not clear if this means 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 leave, 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 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, and that they believed she had been malingering.After her death, the killers taped her arms and legs together, threw her into a 55-gallon drum, filled it with cement, and 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 sealed by the court. However, a weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun reported their real names, claiming “Human rights aren’t needed for brutes.” Furuta’s real name and details about her personal life were reported exhaustively in the media. Kamisaku was judged as a sub leader, at least according to the official trial.

The four boys pled guilty to a reduced charge of “committing bodily injury that resulted in death“, rather than murder. Boy A’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.

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 that her killers are now free. After putting Junko Furuta through all that suffering, they are free men!!! And only have 8 years in prison.



Rest In Eternal Peace,
Junko Furuta
1989-Eternity







18 comments:

  1. So horrific story! Can't imagine the pain! How i wish those bastard will suffer for the rest of their life!

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  2. I can't imagine how they resulted to torturing her...

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  3. is the colour photo given above original? please tell me bcoz i have to present a project on junko furuta in my college. plz help.

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    1. no its not.....i know its too late to response but Internet is abuzz with the story, pictures and there are videos on You Tube enacting the story, but most of the content is user uploaded.as her dead body was found inside the concrete...there aint any true pic available.most of the things were not revealed or exposed those days.However, there are quite a number of missing links in the story

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    2. I had a dream about this girl that's why I have searched her I wanted to know how she died. And who killed her. This was so inhumane that I couldn't even imagine being with her right now.

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  4. I still don't get what the big deal with rape is all about. Its not that serious or whatever and if you're older than 16 then its pretty much your fault why you're a dirty little slut anyway.

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    2. esrely evangelistaOctober 16, 2014 at 12:12 AM
      " Its not that serious or whatever and if you're older than 16 then its pretty much your fault why you're a dirty little slut anyway."

      Oh really? You don't get it? Its seems that you have a very poor brain. Let me help you a little bit. Tried to imagine that you're on this child's shoe and feel the pain. Can you still say that it is pretty much her fault?
      Do you really know exactly what happened? Do you know what's the reason why was she abducted and tortured? Do you even know what RAPE is? Age doesn't matter here. If you have been abducted and involved in a sexual intercourse initiated against your will that is called RAPE no matter your age is. There are news about Rape doings, not just even in a teenager but also with the very young ones and older ones.

      If you don't mind have some time in searching about RAPE and maybe your knowledge will be widened.

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    3. Wow. I can't believe what I am reading. I don't think you exist on a right circle of life here. I mean you're not even human and I don't think you're an animal too because even animals took care of each other. Wow.. I'm speechless to even think that the kind like you still exist. Unbelievable

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    4. What about if you got raped and went through her sufferings then how would u feel

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  6. If you believe in God, and that He is just, then trust that come Judgment Day, Junko will be avenged.

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  7. Oh God!please...please give those rascals the same torture and pain or even more than they did.Don't let such things happen lord.Please send angels of humans for help and give us the power to protest.

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  8. These bastards are roaming freely out there without any worries just wished tht these bastards should get back wht they did to this pitiful girl I'm feeling so sotry for this girl.

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  9. I don't understand this crime. How could one person possibly decide this is ok? And three more? I cannot comprehend the mindset of these individuals. I hope they experience the same as Junko, in this life or the afterlife. Incomprehensible.

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  10. Where are these individuals now And what do they do???
    I hope they are suffering as hell and are they members of yakuza

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