Three years ago, the Mito District Court said, "The sneakyness that took advantage of the victim's immaturity and weaknesses" against the 37-year-old defendant who was accused of kidnapping a girl child in Osaka and a junior high school girl in Ibaraki prefecture who met on SNS. It was a crime, "and he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Defendant Hitoshi Ito (37), an unemployed person in Oyama City, Tochigi Prefecture, sent a message to a female child in Osaka and a junior high school girl in Ibaraki Prefecture who met on SNS three years ago and invited them to their homes. I was accused.
In the lay judge trials so far, the prosecutor's office has sentenced him to 24 years in prison, saying, "In order to satisfy the distorted desire for control, he does not consider the human rights of others at all and is malicious." He insisted he was not guilty, saying, "I was forced to call home to save myself from suicide, and I cannot say that I was kidnapped."
In a ruling on the 22nd, Judge Kyota Nakajima of the Mito District Court pointed out that "I used sweet words to lure him out and put him under his control. It is clear that he was kidnapped."
He then sentenced him to 20 years in prison, saying, "It's a sneaky crime that exploits the victim's immaturity and weaknesses."
Defendant's lawyer said, "I'm sorry that the allegations weren't accepted. I'm considering an appeal."