Girl rescued after escaping from 2-year confinement

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By MARI YAMAGUCHI

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police have caught a 23-year-old man wanted for allegedly abducting a teenage girl who escaped and ran for freedom a day earlier after being held captive in his apartment for nearly two years.

Police said Monday that the girl, now aged 15, escaped from suspect Kabu Terauchi's apartment in downtown Tokyo on Sunday while he was out shopping and called home from a pay phone. She disappeared two years ago from her hometown in Saitama, near Tokyo.

Saitama police said the girl, whose name is withheld because she is a minor, told investigators that she escaped when her captor forgot to lock the door from outside when he went out Sunday to go shopping in Akihabara, known as a district for technology and comic book geeks.

Investigators captured Terauchi in the early hours of Monday near a forest west of Tokyo. He was bleeding from the neck from a minor self-inflicted injury as a result of a failed suicide attempt.

FULL story at link.


Police officers arrive for investigation of the apartment of abduction suspect Kabu Terauchi in Tokyo Monday, March 28, 2016. Japanese police captured the 23-year-old man in an abduction case after a teenage girl escaped and ran for freedom a day earlier after being held captive in his apartment for nearly two years. Police said Monday the girl, 15, escaped from suspect Terauchi’s apartment Sunday while he was out shopping and called from a pay phone. She disappeared two years ago from her hometown in Saitama, near Tokyo. (Kyodo News via AP) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/79aad44d587c41e7a11777f196d66ad4/girl-rescued-after-escaping-2-year-confinement

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. "known as a district for technology and comic book geeks"

Um, what?



In edit: Sorry to laugh at this terrible story, but why is that part in the article?

[Helen Borg]

2. He was a loner, a videogamer, and a geek...

Of course.

[PersonNumber503602]

5. Exactly why I never go into a Gamestop alone.

[Art_from_Ark]

7. Maybe he went to one of the hentai comic book stores in Akihabara

By the way, Akihabara was the scene of one of Japan's worst mass murders in the postwar era when a loner drove his van into a crowded pedestrian mall, then after running over several people got out of the van and started stabbing and slashing several other people.

[phylny]

3. Thank goodness she escaped.

I hope she ends up okay.

Having said that - a pay phone. Wow. I'm not sure how many of those are around anymore in the U.S. Glad there was one when she needed it.

[Art_from_Ark]

8. Pay phones are disappearing pretty fast in Japan, too

So yeah, she was lucky to find one.

[Dont call me Shirley]

4. Glad she is safe now. She will need a good therapist.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. plus 100