This afternoon, at work, my friend Karen,
told me about posted pictures she saw from Facebook.
She looked scared while telling me the story.
Well, not all of it though, (just a few spoilers)
since she doesn't wanna read the details of how the victim was tortured.
Honestly, it's because of how she reacted that made me interested.
I searched for it immediately (Google) when I arrived home.
And yes, it wasn't just another spam in Facebook, it's for real!
Her name is Junko Furuta, a 16 year old girl from Misato, Saitama Prefecture.
I came across different results after I searched it.
Listed as one of the major crimes in Japan (Wikipedia).There were also some films made, based on the murder case.
Different blog postings about her tragic story.
And YouTube, showing videos of crime re-enactments.
Like the Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case in 1995.
And another one in 2004, titled Concrete (AKA Schoolgirl in Cement).
The Japanese Visual Kei/rock band "the GazettE", even released a song
on their album NIL called "Taion" (Body Temperature) as a tribute.
Even after I saw, read and watched the video clips of Junko Furuta's murder,
I still can't believe that a human did that to her. (FYI group of minors)
They said that, things happen for a reason.
But that I won't accept (referring to her murder), whatever it might be.
I pray that her soul and her parents
get the justice that they truly deserved.
DAY 1: November 22, 1988:
Kidnapped
Kept captive in house, and posed as one of the boy’s girlfriend
Raped (over 400 times in total)
Forced to call her parents and tell them she had run away
Starved and malnutritioned
Fed cockroaches to eat and urine to drink
Forced to masturbate
Forced to strip in front of others
Burned with cigarette lighters
Foreign objects inserted into her vagina/anus
DAY 11: December 1, 1988:
Severely beat up countless times
Face held against concrete ground and jumped on
Hands tied to ceiling and body used as a punching bag
Nose filled with so much blood that she can only breath through her mouth
Dumbbells dropped onto her stomach
Vomited when tried to drink water (her stomach couldn’t accept it)
Tried to escape and punished by cigarette burning on arms
Flammable liquid poured on her feet and legs, then lit on fire
Bottle inserted into her anus, causing injury
DAY 20: December10, 1989:
Unable to walk properly due to severe leg burns
Beat with bamboo sticks
Fireworks inserted into anus and lit
Hands smashed by weights and fingernails cracked
Beaten with golf club
Cigarettes inserted into vagina
Beaten with iron rods repeatedly
Winter; forced outside to sleep in balcony
Skewers of grilled chicken inserted
into her vagina and anus, causing bleeding
DAY 30:
Hot wax dripped onto face
Eyelids burned by cigarette lighter
Stabbed with sewing needles in chest area
Left nipple cut and destroyed with pliers
Hot light bulb inserted into her vagina
Heavy bleeding from vagina due to scissors insertion
Unable to urinate properly
Injuries were so severe that it took over an hour
for her to crawl downstairs and use the bathroom
Eardrums severely damaged
Extreme reduced brain size
DAY 40:
Begged her torturers to “kill her and get it over with”
January 1, 1989:
Junko greets the New Years Day alone
Body mutilated
Unable to move from the ground
DAY 44: January 4, 1989:
The four boys beat her mutilated body with an iron barbell,
using a loss at the game of Mah-jongg as a pretext.
She is profusely bleeding from her mouth and nose.
They put a candle’s flame to her face and eyes.
Then, lighter fluid was poured onto
her legs, arms, face and stomach, and then lit on fire.
This final torture lasted for a time of two hours.
Junko Furuta died later that day alone, in pain.
Nothing could compare 44 days of suffering she had to go through.
When her mother heard the news
and details of what had happened to her daughter, she fainted.
She had to undergo a psychiatric outpatient treatment .
Imagine her endless pain.
Her killers are now free men.
Justice was never served, not even after 20 years.
They deserved punishment much greater than they had put upon Furuta,
and for putting an innocent girl through the most unbearable suffering.
Everyone should know about the existence
of Junko Furuta’s unimaginable and incomprehensible suffering,
Never let her story be forgotten.
If this story changes the life of at least one person then it has been worth it.
RIP
Junko Furuta
1989-Eternity