Former teacher arrested for kidnapping, confining 12-year-old girl with stun gun in Nagasaki

Monday 16th March, 01:18 PM JST

NAGASAKI —

A 35-year-old former teacher was arrested on Saturday for kidnapping and confining a 12-year-old schoolgirl for two days at his apartment in Nagasaki City, police said Monday. Police said that Futoshi Nakagawa, a former part-time teacher at a public primary school and currently unemployed, kidnapped the girl while she was on her way to a prep school about 5 p.m. on Thursday.

Police said he used a stun gun on the girl and then took her to his apartment in a taxi. The girl’s family reported her missing Thursday night and police put out an alert. The taxi driver reported Saturday that he had picked up a male passenger who had been carrying a girl matching the description of the missing girl.

Nakagawa was arrested in his apartment by police on Saturday. The girl was also found at the apartment and taken to hospital where she remains in a stable condition, police said.

The taxi driver told police that the girl seemed unconscious in the car. He told police he heard what sounded like sparks during the journey. Police found a stun gun at Nakagawa’s apartment.

Police said the girl was given food and was not tied up at the apartment when she was rescued.

Wire reports

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hoserfella at 12:09 AM JST - 17th March

WilliB - go back and read the last bit about the kid appearing "unconscious" and hearing sparks. I dont think one needs to have kids to have a red flag go up. Do you?
toadold at 12:21 AM JST - 17th March

A commercial driver in an urban area will not have his head in the cab let alone the back seat. His primary concentration will be on the traffic and on navigating. Pick up a fare, drive the fare,drop off the fare, find another fare, pick up the fare, drive the fare,and etc. for hours and hours. I don't know about Japan, but getting taxi drivers to remember things about passengers is notoriously hard. They remember locations easier than they do fares. So that's usually where you start.
ca1ic0cat at 02:33 AM JST - 17th March

I don't know, I've carried on conversations with cabbies when I'm in the front seat. So I think this guy should have had a clue that something was amiss. He should have just stopped at the first koban, parked the car and asked the cop to check it out.

As far as the sicko is concerned, I hope they lock him up until he is senile. This guy is a rape / murder waiting to happen.
saruvadoru at 05:50 AM JST - 17th March

any news on the sentence to that guy yet?
Disillusioned at 07:43 AM JST - 17th March

any news on the sentence to that guy yet?

Do you mean the taxi driver? What the heck! A youngish guy gets into taxi with an unconscious 12y/o, but doesn't go to a hospital and the taxi driver just took the fare? What a knob head!
pathat at 07:48 AM JST - 17th March

I'm glad the girl was rescued and I hope she was not sexually assaulted by this clown.

However, taking a look at the bigger picture, it's self-defeating to prosecute cases like this when Japan's colossal porn industry legally cranks out tons of confinement and rape vids of school girls each year.

Japan has too many guys perverted by such stuff, and this 35 y/o dirtbag was a teenager when such stuff became commonplace on the shelves of video shops.
likeitis at 09:21 AM JST - 17th March

If this case had anything to do with rape porn and confinement videos, then Japan would have many of these cases every year. They don't. So obviously, the contention is absurd.

The problem is the guy, not movies he may or may not have watched. And anyone who has the ability to separate the reality of the low incidence of such crime and the fantasy that the number of videos causes such crime, can see that. If anything, the numbers would suggest the opposite conclusion.
pathat at 10:19 AM JST - 17th March

"If this case had anything to do with rape porn and confinement videos, then Japan would have many of these cases every year. They don't. So obviously, the contention is absurd."

Anybody that has lived in Japan for many years and doesn't look at the country through rose-colored lenses knows the truth.

I'll bet you my contention is spot on, but let's wait for further reports about what the police find in this bozo's apartment and what people who know him have to say.
hoserfella at 11:21 AM JST - 17th March

agreed, pathat. Human garbage like this bozo all tend to have the same pathetic little fetishes
likeitis at 03:23 PM JST - 17th March

pathat: I'll bet you my contention is spot on, but let's wait for further reports about what the police find in this bozo's apartment and what people who know him have to say.

So your contention is that only this guy and maybe a few others are affected by such videos to the point that they would actually do that? Because that I can agree with. But you have to accept that for all the videos, the incidence of this sort of crime is low, so most guys are not so affected. In other words, this guy was born loony.

But you also contended that the videos were perverting male minds. But if you ask me, no man needs a video to dream up such a thing. They already do. The difference between them and this guy is that they can control themselves and this guy could not. And also, if you ask me, such fantasies are better entertained than left to fester.

hoserfella: Human garbage like this bozo all tend to have the same pathetic little fetishes

I think the both of you might want to wait until some more details come out. It is saying a lot about both you that you assume a sexual motive despite there being no mention of anything but genders and ages and...uh...stun guns.
hoserfella at 05:20 PM JST - 17th March

likeitis- another brilliant deduction! It never occurred to me that the poor gentleman in question just wanted her for the stimulating conversation that only a 12year-old girl can provide.
likeitis at 09:28 AM JST - 18th March

hoserfella: another brilliant deduction! It never occurred to me that the poor gentleman in question just wanted her for the stimulating conversation that only a 12year-old girl can provide.

I will consider that a baby step away from your one-track mind. But I believe you can do better.
the_sicilian at 08:19 PM JST - 19th March

likeitis:

And also, if you ask me, such fantasies are better entertained than left to fester.

Could you clarify your statement above? Sounds a bit odd to me. If you believe this, you're similar to the perp.

And the only place for this guy is in a nice rough max security prison. Once the inmates find out what he did, its over.

Ciao
mistersmarmy at 08:43 PM JST - 19th March

And also, if you ask me, such fantasies are better entertained than left to fester.

come on likeitis, you can't be serious with this statement? As far as I'm aware, only Jesus never had any fantasies that would have ended up in a potential custodial sentence.
airrunwesker at 11:15 AM JST - 22nd March

Well, I am glad the wheels inside the taxi drivers head finally started to turn... "Missing girl + unconscious girl in my cab" Hmmm… …a few hours of the Jeopardy theme… “hey, there was something strange about that passed out girl”!