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A 19-year-old girl who was arrested in January on suspicion of killing a 77-year-old woman in Nagoya, and who has also been charged with attempting to kill two classmates during her school years by poisoning them, may also be charged with arson, police said Thursday.
According to Aichi prefectural police, the girl, who cannot be named because she is a minor, torched a house near her family's home in Miyagi Prefecture last December. The girl was quoted by police as saying she wanted to see what charred bodies looked like, Sankei reported. Nobody was home at the time of the fire, police said.
The girl was first arrested on Jan 27. Police said she used a hatchet to kill Tomoko Mori at her apartment in Nagoya last December. After her arrest, the suspect was quoted by police as saying she had wanted to kill someone ever since she was a child.
The girl has admitted to lacing her then 16-year-old friends' drinks on two occasions with thallium sulfate, an odorless and tasteless compound used as rat poison and an ant killer, Sankei reported.
The first incident took place at a karaoke parlor in Miyagi Prefecture on May 27, 2012. Afterwards, the girl who drank the poison suffered suffered stomach pains, as well as hair loss. The girl's father said his daughter still has vision problems and nerve damage.
In the second incident, which took place about a week later, the suspect put the poison in a PET bottle of water and gave it to a male friend to drink at school. The boy suffered vision problems, and pain in his arms and feet, police said.
The girl told police she bought the poison when she went to visit her parents. Although the sale of poison is prohibited to anyone under 18, the girl used her father's credit card without his knowledge and told the store employee she was over 18 and that she needed the thallium for a school experiment.
© Japan Today
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Aly Rustom
That's new
TumbleDry
One sick girl. As a minor, she'll get a reformatory sentence then released in the wild again. She should be put down. It's not possible to have such kind of people roaming the streets freely.
turbotsat
I think it's possible that if the school system individually videotaped all students responding to a standard questionnaire, they could identify a subset of students that should be directed into immediate treatment and future monitoring (possibly forever). Rather than waiting for members of the subset to off some poor unlucky persons.
But that is perhaps too advanced, and would impinge on some influential segments' livelihoods.
chikv
It is secondary but what will happen with the store employee that sold her the poison?
Kuribo1
Absolutely garbage. Pure evil, evil should be destroyed.
Michael Craig
Although everything she did was evil, she's STILL a minor. She can put into juvenile hall or Japan's equivalent of it at least.
Steve Crichton
She should never be allowed back into society. I do not agree with the death penalty so she just going to have to rot in a cell for 70 more years. What a little work of evil this girl is.
khulifi
Wild girl .. should be locked and chained to the wall for the rest of her life.
Mocheake
She was a one woman crime spree. She's also criminally insane.
Mirai Hayashi
Just to think that there are people out there who think she needs "rehabilitation". She needs to either be in a very small cell for a very long time, or at the end of a rope.
sensei258
Short of a miracle, she's beyond help.
Jumin Rhee
Redefinition of a minor would be in order as well as good mental facilities (paid for). 16-20may have been good age range for minors in the past, but modern kids scare some adults.
NathalieB
Here`s the kicker for me. When she went to "visit her parents"? So who was she living with normally? On her own like the last lunatic that dismembered her friend? With a doting but useless grandmother with no boundaries? In a home? If so, why?
Not making any excuses for her and would like to see her locked in a padded cell for the rest of her life. But whatsthe back story here?
turbotsat
NathalieB: So who was she living with normally? ... With a doting but useless grandmother with no boundaries?
"No boundaries" doesn't seem enough. How about a grandmother who harped on her daily (or hourly) and beat her with a stick weekly?
Kobe White Bar Owner
lock her up an through away the key, evil is evil wrong is wrong as a teen she IS responsible for her actions. This being treated as a minor is ridiculous, i know old habits die hard in Japan but changing the age to 16 or 18 is a step in the right direction i.m.o.
nath
Should this really have been published?
602miko
Sick mind where she get the idea about poisoning and killing people?