Take our user survey and make your voice heard.
A court on Friday jailed a man for slipping corrosive poison into the shoes of a colleague he was stalking, causing her to have the tips of her toes amputated, officials and media reports said.
Tatsujiro Fukasawa, 41, was handed a seven-year sentence for assault, a court official confirmed. He poured the acid into the woman's shoes late last year after she turned down his romantic overtures, media reports said.
"This was a vicious crime because he used a chemical that can kill people," said Judge Takafumi Miyamoto of the Shizuoka District Court, Jiji Press news agency said.
Hydrofluoric acid -- which Fukasawa obtained from the laboratory where he and his victim worked -- can result in death if absorbed through skin and into the bloodstream.
The victim went to hospital complaining of pain and developed gangrene in one foot, forcing her to have the ends of her toes amputated, reports said.
© (C) 2013 AFP
10 Comments
Login to comment
SauloJpn
7 years sentence seems to be very lenient for a cold blood plan to kill someone and for the pain he caused the victim.
Heza!
You have that right SauloJpn! Thats just so scary on how close she came to dying because of a crazy person :(
Disillusioned
Strange! He was only charged with assault, even though he admitted to trying to kill her. One would think the charge would be attempted murder, which carries a much longer jail term. Guess he had a very good lawyer.
cl400
He would know that it may have caused death, so, perhaps his intention was to kill her? Of course typical J-logic only gave him a 7 year prison term.
sf2k
wow, she's lucky it didn't enter the bloodstream any further. This was attempted murder so I also agree with the comments here and don't follow how this was just an assault. There's the planning which defines premeditation
LSpiro
He knew what he was doing and he did it with the intent to kill. It didn’t kill her but it cost her the tips of her toes, a handicap she has to endure for the rest of her life.
His sentence should be, “Jailed until the tips of her toes grow back.”
gogogo
Why do these times of crimes get seriously punishment but in family murder get much less or even suspended sentences?
SauloJpn
“Jailed until the tips of her toes grow back.”
LSpiro-san that cracked me up. Had to clean my desk after reading it.
lostrune2
Japan seems to be lenient on so-called "crimes of passion."
nath
Hydrofluoric acid is BAD stuff. They use it to clean out pipes at a pharmaceutical plant I used to work at. It seeks out & dissolves calcium, so if it gets on your skin, it soak in & seeks out your bones.
We had emergency showers EVERY where at that place. If you got any Hydrofluoric acid on you, you immediately stripped down & pulled the lever on the shower; no curtains; no privacy; but, at that point, who would care.