One week from the arrest of the kidnapping of a small girl 6 focus on clarification of motivation November 30 4:46

30 days have passed since a 35-year-old man in Tochigi Prefecture was arrested for kidnapping a sixth grader girl in Osaka. Because the man is silent about the incident, the police are investigating focusing on the elucidation of the motive.

A self-proclaimed temporary employee in Oyama City, Tochigi Prefecture, suspected by Hitoshi Ito (35), was arrested on the 23rd of this month for taking a 6th grade elementary school girl (12) in Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, whom he met through SNS, and kidnapped a minor. And sent on suspicion of confinement.

Initially, the police denied the charges such as "I didn't want to kidnap" the investigation, but according to investigators, it was silent.

According to previous studies, Ito has suspected that the SIM card needed for communication has been removed from the girl's smartphone and that it seems to have threatened to show something like a toy bullet.

Immediately after being secured, he told the police that he had been confined while knowing the situation of the search because he told the police that he knew that the girl was being investigated in the news. It has been.

One week has passed since 30 days since the arrest, and the police are conducting investigations, including analyzing the communication history of the suspect Ito and the girl, focusing on elucidating the motives.

The reality of kidnapping and confinement

One week after Ito was arrested.

Police investigations have gradually revealed the nature of the incident and the actual situation.

Mr. Ito first contacted the girl around the 10th of this month, using a Twitter direct message that is private and can be exchanged, “There is a girl who came about six months ago. I told you.

At that time, he called himself “Setsujiro” and did not give his address.

According to the police, Ito invited the girl to the park in Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka on the morning of the 17th, and took her to the home in Oyama City, Tochigi Prefecture, which was about 400 kilometers away.

After taking up the girl's smartphone, we removed the SIM card necessary for communication and made it unusable.

In addition to being threatened by showing things like bullets, it is also believed that girls and shoes were taken up to prevent girls from escaping.

At home, there was a 15-year-old female junior high school student in Ibaraki that had been missing since June, and the girl was sleeping together in a Japanese-style room on the first floor.

The girl explained that she was confined to life, and that meals were about one meal a day, such as fried rice, and that the bath was once every two days, and that she was watching Youtube videos on a computer all the time. is.

During this time, the curtains and shutters were closed and I could not see outside.

Around 10am on the 23rd, only 6 days after being taken away, the girl escaped while Ito and the female junior high school student were sleeping, and while it rained, she walked about three and a half hours without wearing shoes, Protected by police box.

After that, Ito was told that he had been in a car near his home, and was told that he “would have found the girl gone and looked around in the car”.