On January 4, 1989, four teenage boys murdered 16 year-old Junko Faruta, after having kidnapped, imprisoned, and tortured her for weeks on end, in Tokyo, Japan. The details of the crimes committed against Faruta are difficult to even read. But what is perhaps more disturbing is that the perpetrators received very little punishment.
On November 25, 1988, the boys abducted Faruta and held her captive in the house owned by one of the boy's parents. They told the parents that she was a girlfriend (a ruse they later dropped) and forced her to call her own parents and tell them that she had run away. Over the next 44 days, they did unspeakable things to her, including rape, rape with foreign objects, beatings, burnings, dropping heavy objects on her, and more. Attempts to escape or call the police resulted in more torture. What's worse, the parents who owned the house knew what was going on, but refused to help due to fear for their own lives, as one of the boys was a member of Yakuza (the Japanese Mafia). Faruta eventually begged them to kill her and "get it over with."
After she finally died from her numerous injuries, they dumped her body in a 55-gallon drum, filled it with cement, and dumped it in an empty lot. The body wasn't discovered until a year later.
The four teens pled guilty to a reduced charge of "committing bodily injury that resulted in death", instead of murder, and received minimal sentences. The ringleader of the group served less than ten years. The parents of one boy sold their house for 50 million yen and paid it in compensation to Faruta's family. An attempted civil suit by her parents, unfortunately, went nowhere. Two of them changed their names and one was convicted and returned to prison in yet another assault case.
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