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Man arrested on suspicion of kidnapping 3-year-old girl

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Police in Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, have arrested a 43-year-old man on suspicion of kidnapping a 3-year-old girl.

Masayoshi Eto is suspected of kidnapping the child on a street in the Shinshigai shopping area in Chuo Ward at around 10:20 a.m. last Sunday, Fuji TV reported Thursday.

About 30 minutes later, a woman passerby found the girl by herself 300 meters away from the spot where she was abducted. She thought the girl was lost, and took her to the koban. Police said the girl told them a man whom she didn't know talked to her and said he was her mother’s friend.

Police identified Eto from street surveillance camera footage which showed him carrying the girl in his arms while walking. He was arrested on Wednesday night.

Local media reported that Eto has admitted to the charge and was quoted by police as saying that he was interested in little girls and wanted to touch them.

Police said the girl had been attending an event with her mother and two brothers and that she had wandered off without her mother noticing.

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Repulsive! Japanese courts, please! Do not go easy on these perverts! Protect children!

10 ( +11 / -1 )

"Eto... was interested in little girls and wanted to touch them"

[Insert appropriate punishment here]

8 ( +10 / -2 )

The news is really turning my stomach this week. Thank goodness something more horrible didn't happen.

8 ( +9 / -1 )

Here goes another one

6 ( +7 / -1 )

6,5 years for this douche too? Maybe less because he didn't manage to lock her up in his house. Japan really needs to do more about mental health. The number of loonies is increasing day by day.

10 ( +11 / -1 )

Eto has admitted to the charge and was quoted by police as saying that he was interested in little girls and wanted to touch them.

Hold the phone people! We have a new contender for 'creep of the week'! And, it's only Thursday!

I wonder if his apartment is filled with manga depicting little girls in sexual activities. Does he also have a soundproof room for confining little girls? Hmmmmm? But, there is nothing wrong with sexually explicit comics involving incest and and rape of minors, is there? It's completely normal to have these kinds of fetishes, isn't it? Sickos!

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Strange he did no do anything special, as per my understanding of the article. Bizarre guy so far, but you can't categorize him as a perv if he had no history of it and investigation shows nothing. Problem is: will due investigation take place. A simple bow for a new go ?

-6 ( +2 / -8 )

he was interested in little girls and wanted to touch them.

His mind became polluted over the year by viewing kiddy porn and manga featuring sexual images of children.

Hold the phone people! We have a new contender for 'creep of the week'! And, it's only Thursday!

Halloween is Sat.

1 ( +4 / -3 )

His mind became polluted over the year by viewing kiddy porn and manga featuring sexual images of children.

Is this speculation?

-4 ( +3 / -7 )

Hello Strangerland. No just posting here on JT frivolously, as usual. Please don't take me serious.

I like bashing these creeps who commit these crimes. Especially when children become the victims of sex-crimes.

-1 ( +4 / -5 )

I'm fine with bashing them as well. But I prefer to stick to fact, so as not to cloud the situation.

-1 ( +5 / -6 )

Question to commenters here:

Until what age do you or would you keep your children under a watchful eye when going to a public place?

I mean I know children wander off and all but 3 years old for me is still a bit young to keep out of my eyesight.

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I mean I know children wander off and all but 3 years old for me is still a bit young to keep out of my eyesight.

. . . . . but, , , but, we thot Japan is safe? There are a few JT posters (the numbers are dwindling) who will say young girls, even 3 yr old toddlers, are safe here.

1 ( +3 / -2 )

Our numbers are increasing, not dwindling.

-7 ( +1 / -8 )

"saying that he was interested in little girls and wanted to touch them" What the?!

1 ( +1 / -0 )

Such a mean and disgusting pervy, even other pedophiles would hate such heinous act.

0 ( +0 / -0 )

unbelievable, interest in three years old. after jail time should put him in a desert island.

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to many foreigners posting about how Japan does things then leave and take that garbage about our laws back to your own countries. If you don't like it leave. Here is Japan, we do what works for us. The parent is responsible for the child not the man who took her, and not condoning what he did was right but responsibility is the parent.

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Knowing about all the nut jobs they have out there, the things that happen to children, I don`t understand how parents leave their kids unnatended. Specially a lil 3 year old...I wouldnt let go of my kids hands, specially at crowded events. I often see kids wondering by themselfs, some crying for their moms in shopping malls or supermarkets etc...

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>Local media reported that Eto has admitted to the charge and was quoted by police as saying that he was interested in little girls and wanted to touch them.

OMG! Castrate and JAIL...NOW!

-1 ( +0 / -1 )

Everyone here that keeps blaming the anime and manga are as bad as the people who say videogames create violence in real life well only if you are stupid and or mental but enoughs enough maybe if parents were around more to pay attention to what their kid does before they grow up then things wouldn't be so bad not only parents are to blame but so are those adults who jump to conclusions and thinks discipline is abuse that's why this generation is so messed up

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On a scale of 1 to 10 of sexual deviancy this would make at least a nine, the sentence does not in anyway reflect the seriousness of this crime.

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On a scale of 1 to 10 of sexual deviancy this would make at least a nine, the sentence does not in anyway reflect the seriousness of this crime.

What sentence? He was just arrested, there hasn't been a trial yet.

-1 ( +1 / -2 )

Tattoo it on his head forever! "im interested in little girls and want to touch them" seems about right in my eyes. Oh that prior to jail by the way.

0 ( +0 / -0 )

He should be a registered sex offender!

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