Two teens arrested for throwing 8-year-old boy into sea

Friday 02nd October, 07:00 AM JST

FUKUOKA —

Two 15-year-old boys have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after they allegedly threw an 8-year-old boy into the sea in the city of Omuta in Fukuoka Prefecture, police said Thursday.

According to police, the two youths, along with three other students, aged 11-12, accosted the boy in a store and took him to a park where they choked him and burned him with lit cigarettes for over an hour from 6:30 p.m. on Aug 6. They then brought the boy to a nearby harbor and threw him into the water with the intent of killing him to hide their assault, police allege.

The boy was able to climb up a ladder back onto the pier by himself, but he sustained bone fractures and other serious injuries. He was picked up by an officer on patrol after his parents had reported him missing.

Police said one of the boys under arrest recorded the violence with his mobile phone camera. The footage showed the crying victim being attacked for several minutes in the park.

One of the assailants was quoted as saying: “He rode my bicycle without asking, and it made me mad.”

Police are currently working with a child consultation center on the case.

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niran at 01:36 PM JST - 2nd October

The misbehaved kids showes there ,parents social and family backgrounds the panishment should directed to the parents.
bobbafett at 02:21 PM JST - 2nd October

your son would grow up with a jailbird dad. Great solution.

yeah, like I am stupid enough to walk down to the Koban, lay a complaint, do my thing, then go back and confess. I am not Japanese.
aj2o1 at 02:24 PM JST - 2nd October

It's a sick world like 'Clockward Orange.'
nemoflow at 02:35 PM JST - 2nd October

Reminds me of a tamed down version of the Jamie Bulger case, in England in the early 90's.

There was massive public uproar about that, at the time. I do not imagine anything like that to happen in Japan... because the public simply does not care.
onewrldoneppl at 02:54 PM JST - 2nd October

**n3312 at 10:44 AM JST - 2nd October

This is sad and disturbing. What kind of people will those kids grow up to be?**

they will grow up to be inmates/cellmates. i hope they get what they deserve.
bgaudry at 04:39 PM JST - 2nd October

yeah, like I am stupid enough to walk down to the Koban, lay a complaint, do my thing, then go back and confess. I am not Japanese.

And will thus stick out like a sore thumb and be arrested within hours. Great thinking there Einstein!
stirfry at 05:44 PM JST - 2nd October

pretty obvious what their punishment should be
bobbafett at 06:02 PM JST - 2nd October

And will thus stick out like a sore thumb and be arrested within hours. Great thinking there Einstein!

I would do time for my kid. I am not a coward. You have no balls.
Antonios_M at 06:25 PM JST - 2nd October

That's so sick. I hope both them and their parents will get their punishment. I can't believe that 10 years old kids did this kind of things.
dolphingirl at 07:12 PM JST - 2nd October

Sick and horrific! As other people have stated, it seems unlikely that these kids suddenly went pycho. Torturing the boy for an hour and then throwing him in the water to die: that's very very brutal. There must have been other events that led up to this. Maybe they had been bullying this poor boy before and no one did anything to stop them. What the heck causes young boys to do something so violent?! What the kind of parents do they have?! So disturbing. Thank goodness the boy survived.
ca1ic0cat at 09:44 PM JST - 2nd October

I would do time for my kid. I am not a coward. You have no balls.

With what these kids did they deserve some harsh jail time and the parents deserve a whopping big civil suit to drain their bank accounts.

Your kid will probably get what he deserves. Some parents may not be cowards but they probably aren't thinking with their brains.
KitsuneYoukai at 10:21 PM JST - 2nd October

The kid had some hard core survival instincts here. Hopefully, he will be able to get over this incident and succeed in life. Punish the punks is what I say!
usaexpat at 12:16 AM JST - 3rd October

Monsters all of them bussing sociopaths. I say lock them up for a good long time preferrably in adult prison where they will be the weak ones.
bdiego at 04:59 AM JST - 3rd October

Now that's a pretty ridiculous suggestion. Mote in the eye comparison
telecasterplayer at 11:59 AM JST - 5th October

I'd like to know where the suspects' parents' were.