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Kablooie

(18,637 posts)
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 09:58 PM Aug 2014

Parents of Sasebo girl who allegedly killed friend tried to put daughter in psychiatric ward

NAGASAKI – The first-year high school student arrested for allegedly killing and dismembering her classmate in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, told her stepmother about her desire to kill someone a few days before the grisly slaying last month, and her parents then attempted to admit her in a psychiatric ward but failed, her father revealed Monday through a lawyer.

On July 23, the girl — with a serious look on her face — told her mother she found it fun to kill cats, and then said she wanted to kill a person.

According to the document, the mother told the psychiatrist about the girl’s homicide wish on July 23, but the specialist terminated the session by saying, “We don’t have time today.”

The father said that the doctor lacked a sense of urgency.

The day before the July 26 killing of 15-year-old Aiwa Matsuo in the suspect’s apartment, the suspect’s parents visited the psychiatric ward and asked if that hospital or another institution could admit her. The request was not granted after the doctor said she would have to be assigned an individual room and other hospitals would find it difficult to meet that requirement, according to the father.

She was arrested July 27 after the classmate’s mutilated body was found in the condo.

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Parents of Sasebo girl who allegedly killed friend tried to put daughter in psychiatric ward (Original Post) Kablooie Aug 2014 OP
I honestly believe that sociopaths are born that way. Laffy Kat Aug 2014 #1
me too. mopinko Aug 2014 #4
But some people are born into neighborhoods that pressure them into criminal gangs. Kablooie Aug 2014 #5
Japan teen murder accused 'kept cat's head in fridge' yuiyoshida Aug 2014 #2
Pretty insane. And thrill killers are almost always men. Very unusual for a girl to be like this. Kablooie Aug 2014 #3

Laffy Kat

(16,385 posts)
1. I honestly believe that sociopaths are born that way.
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 11:07 PM
Aug 2014

Most go through life without murdering but it's not their conscience that stops them because they have no conscience. There's just something not wired correctly in their brains. I also believe they can't be cured.

Kablooie

(18,637 posts)
5. But some people are born into neighborhoods that pressure them into criminal gangs.
Wed Aug 6, 2014, 03:23 AM
Aug 2014

They develop into hardened criminals but if they had lived in different circumstances they might have turned out differently.

It's not either or.
There are both genetic and environmental factors that can affect who we are.

My feeling is that genetic influences are not very flexible and can override environmental effects but the environment can still flavor the way the genetic tendencies express themselves.

yuiyoshida

(41,833 posts)
2. Japan teen murder accused 'kept cat's head in fridge'
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 11:13 PM
Aug 2014

Tokyo (AFP) —

A 16-year-old Japanese schoolgirl who allegedly confessed to decapitating a classmate kept a severed cat head in her refrigerator, a report said Tuesday.

The teen was arrested last week on suspicion of murdering fellow student Aiwa Matsuo, 15, after police discovered her dismembered body on a bed in the suspect’s home in the western Japanese city of Sasebo.

The grisly case has attracted major media attention in a country with one of the world’s lowest crime rates, as commentators search for answers to explain the teenager’s pattern of increasingly violent behavior.

Some reports have suggested the parents of the girl—who wasn’t named because she is a minor—desperately sought to have her hospitalized but were rebuffed.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/japan-teen-murder-accused-kept-cats-head-in-fridge

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