Girl slits classmate's throat

[grinner]

Girl slits classmate's throat
By Audrey McAvoy in Tokyo
June 2, 2004

AN 11-year-old girl led a fellow sixth-grader to an empty classroom during their lunch hour, slit her neck and arms with a box-cutter, and left her to bleed to death.

The grisly murder at an elementary school in southern Japan yesterday sent shockwaves through the local community, leaving many asking how such a tragedy could strike in their midst.

Police identified the victim as Satomi Mitarai, 12.

They said she died of massive blood loss after being slashed in the neck and arms with a retractable knife used to cut paper and boxes.

Authorities took her attacker into custody for questioning soon after the assault at Okubo Elementary School in Sasebo, 980 kilometres southwest of Tokyo. link (http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9723123%255E401,00.html) oh my goodness... what the frell is this???

[generic_screenname]

I concur. What the hell in wrong with kids? I couldn't even imagine something as sick as that ever happening.

[faustus]

well it seams like im repeating myself again
the worlds in a crisis
what the frell possed her to do that?

[trinamick]

Good grief. I am so glad I'm not in school anymore. Having to deal with things like that is a lot different than worrying about kids smoking in the bathroom.

[Third EYe]

Good thing there are no guns in Japan, cause then she would have been shot to death.

[who45]

This is horrible. But it seems that you hear of more children committing crimes of murder now days.

[Jeff O'Connor]

Ugh. Makes me glad I have my GED and don't have two more years of high school ahead of me.

[JrMissToughChick]

storys like this wig me out

[AgentSun]

whoa...

you know what i thought when i read that? GoGo, from Kill Bill. it's something she'd do...and you know, some one is going to go nutso and blame the movies.

[faustus]

blame the movies is the easy option. but then again no parent is going to admit they brought there kid up wrong.

[tribsaint]

whoa...

you know what i thought when i read that? GoGo, from Kill Bill. it's something she'd do...and you know, some one is going to go nutso and blame the movies.

That's what I was thinking. Then again, it could just be another kid whose parents refused to get help for...or didn't even notice to begin with.

Or it could be the result of violent video games. Or the internet. Or heck, maybe even the school. It was their fault that there was a box cutter there in the first place. [/sarcasm]

The point is, we're way too quick to point the blame after the damage has already been done. *shakes head*

[LiLOrion]

Apparently it was because of something the girl wrote about her on her website that caused her to kill her. (not that that makes it any better)

This is from the AOL version of the story:


"Media said the 11-year-old had told investigators she asked Satomi not to write messages about her appearance on an Internet bulletin board, but that her friend had refused to stop.

Experts say communicating via the Internet can stimulate emotional reactions and warn that users should take extra care not needed in face-to-face conversations.

"When you talk with your friends in the classroom, you look at their faces. So you can tell if they're serious or joking, or angry or laughing, from their expressions or tone of voice," the Internet Association Japan, a non-profit organization, says in its "Rules and Manners for Children using the Internet."

"But with the Internet, you can't hear your friends' voices or see their faces... What you wrote as a joke can make your friend angry."

[AgentSun]

oh geez....does that mean that we all have to be really really nice to each other, lest someone decides to take a box cutter to our farscape dvd sets?!!

this is a load of crap! the internet is NO excuse for murder. this girl was mentally loopy, she only needed one small excuse to do what she did, and this was it. oh please, a girl taunts another girl, and girl slices and dices with a box cutter?

i was working with a box cutter last week at work, and the manager got really quippy with me over how i was opening the boxes, but did i want to go freddy on her? nooooo....cause it's wrong to murder.

[Spedoinkel]

Well with out that AOL bit I could have understood why this happened (given circumstances tho I don't condone it), though now I just see that it was just very petty.

[Jeff O'Connor]

The Japanese are a very personal people.