A Japanese court on Monday sentenced a 25-year-old man to nine years in prison for kidnapping a girl, now 17, who was found safe about two years after she went missing in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, in 2014.
A Japanese court on Monday sentenced a 25-year-old man to nine years in prison for kidnapping a girl, now 17, who was found safe about two years after she went missing in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, in 2014.
Satomi Matsubara, presiding judge at Saitama District Court, recognized that Kabu Terauchi had full competence to take criminal responsibility for the incident.
The judge said Terauchi was aware of the illegality of what he did because he attempted to delay the police’s initial response by preparing a fake license plate for the car he used for the crime and getting the girl to write a memo to make it appear she left home at her own will.
