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High school boy who bullied another student into suicide put on probation
The Mainichi Shimbun KOBE -- A former high school boy accused of bullying another student into committing suicide has been put on probation. The Kobe Family Court handed down the decision on the 18-year-old, who has since been expelled from the private high school, during his juvenile trial. Of the three other boys referred to the court over the incident, one has been sent to a juvenile reformatory and the two others have been put on probation. The boy conspired with the other two youths to send e-mails to the victim in June last year, persistently demanding money from him, according to the decision. The victim, who was 18 at the time, leaped to his death on July 3, the court found. （Mainichi Japan） March 11, 2008 4th teen held over extortion suicide
The Asahi Shimbun A fourth high school student has been arrested on suspicion of extorting money from a schoolmate who later committed suicide at the school in July. According to the Hyogo prefectural police, the 18-year-old male student forced the victim, also 18, to buy a fake brand-name bracelet. The suspect admitted receiving 5,000 yen from the victim, but denied it was extortion. The three other arrested classmates have been sent to family court on charges of attempted extortion. According to the police, the newly arrested suspect sent the victim e-mails from May to June, saying: "A friend told me he would beat you up if he finds you. I'll stop him if you buy a bracelet from me for 40,000 yen." The victim reportedly paid the student 5,000 yen. Although the victim refused to pay the remaining 35,000 yen, saying the bracelet was fake, the suspect repeatedly demanded payment. On July 2, the day before the suicide, the arrested student sent an e-mail demanding payment. In his suicide note, the victim wrote the name of the suspect and said he could not pay the 40,000 yen. (Oct. 30, 2007) 2 students sent to Kobe court over blackmail
The Yomiuri Shimbun Two third-year students of a private high school in Suma Ward, Kobe, were sent Monday to the Kobe Family Court for attempting to extort money from a classmate who committed suicide in July at the age of 18. The Kobe District Public Prosecutors Office attached an opinion that the students should be sent to a reformatory for their roles in determining the contents of e-mails sent to blackmail the boy in conspiracy with a 17-year-old classmate, who was sent to the court on Oct. 5. The court decided to detain the two boys, aged 17 and 18, at a juvenile corrective institution in Kobe for two weeks. (Oct. 16, 2007) 2 more held in bullying that led to suicide
The Asahi Shimbun KOBE--Police arrested two teenagers Tuesday on suspicion of extorting money from a classmate who took his own life when he could no longer keep up with ever-growing demands for cash. The 18-year-old victim leapt to his death from the fourth floor of a school building on July 3. Another student, 17, from the same privately run senior high school was arrested on Sept. 17. In a suicide note, the boy said he was unable to meet the group's insatiable appetite for money and that death was the only way out of his predicament. The name of the victim was not disclosed for privacy reasons while those of his alleged tormentors were withheld because they are minors under the Juvenile Law. The victim took his own life after he left his classroom, saying he needed to visit the bathroom. He was found lying in the school grounds with head injuries. Police said the victim apparently was bullied with demands he pay a total of between 400,000 and 500,000 yen. The demands for cash came in cellphone text messages, according to the police. The boy is known to have promised his alleged extortionists to pay 10,000 yen each time he told a lie, police sources said. The students who were arrested Tuesday are aged 18 and 17. They belong to a futsal club, of which the victim was also a member. "We talked about taking money (from him), but we were not serious," police quoted one of the youths as saying. Police said the victim was forced to purchase a fake brand-name bracelet from another student last year. The deal was brokered by the 17-year-old boy arrested Tuesday. In selling the bracelet, the student demanded more cash after the boy made a downpayment. He said his father purchased the accessory for 80,000 yen but would charge only half that amount. The boy paid 5,000 yen but refused to pay any more when he realized the bracelet was a fake. The student kept demanding money, according to the police. A Web site, which was put up in the spring and has since closed, carried the name, address and e-mail details of the victim as well as photos of him being harassed--such as being forced to remove his clothes in a school toilet.(IHT/Asahi: September 27,2007) 2 more schoolboys arrested in connection with suicide of bullied classmate
The Mainichi Shimbun KOBE -- Police arrested two schoolboys on Tuesday on suspicion of conspiring with another teen and attempting to extort money from an 18-year-old classmate who later committed suicide, investigators said. On Tuesday morning, police took the 17- and 18-year-old schoolboys in for voluntarily questioning, and served arrest warrants for the pair later in the day. Police have already arrested a 17-year-old student, also accusing him of trying to extort money from the victim. All three suspects, whose names have been withheld because they are minors, attended the same school as the victim. Investigators said that when the 17-year-old student who was earlier arrested sent the victim an e-mail demanding money, the two schoolboys told him, "Ask the victim how much our share is." School officials investigating the death of the victim, who committed suicide by jumping from the fifth floor of a school building on July 3, found that the three schoolboys had made the victim promise to pay them 10,000 yen each time he told a lie. At first, they were only joking, but from spring this year they started demanding money from him. The three schoolboys had belonged to the same sports group as the victim. From about autumn last year, however, they began to bully him, leaving clay on his desk, and making him go to restaurants to buy food for them. On one Internet site that one of the students set up, a photograph showed the victim's private parts. A note the victim is thought to have left behind when he committed suicide said, "I can't pay the money." Initially the boy's school denied that there had been any bullying, but after a reinvestigation it reversed its stance on Friday and admitted that the victim had been bullied. (Mainichi) September 25, 2007 2 more teens held for attempted blackmail of boy who killed himself
Japan Today KOBE — Police arrested two more high school teens, aged 18 and 17, respectively Tuesday on suspicion of attempting to blackmail an 18-year-old schoolmate who committed suicide in July by leaping to his death from a schoolhouse in Kobe. Another 17-year-old student has already been arrested. The names of the suspects who are all students of a privately run high school in Kobe are being withheld because they are minors under the Juvenile Law. Police said the three students had allegedly been in a conspiracy to threaten the victim and demand money from him from around last spring up until his death in July. The amount of money demanded by the suspects had reached nearly 500,000 yen, police sources said. The victim leapt to his death from the fourth floor of the schoolhouse on July 3. Two weeks later on July 17, the first suspect was arrested on suspicion of sending an email through his mobile phone to demand money. Police investigations have shown that the victim had been on the receiving end of intense bullying at school, with a nude photo of him having been posted on an Internet site with his hair cut in the Mohican style. School authorities have admitted the victim had been bullied and offered an apology. © 2007 Kyodo News. All rights reserved. No reproduction or republication without written permission. School knew about defamatory comments on Net against boy who committed suicide
The Mainichi Shimbun KOBE -- Officials at a private school in Kobe where a boy committed suicide told a news conference that they were not aware of any bullying despite knowing that disparaging comments about the victim had been posted on the Internet, it has been learned. During a new conference following the boy's death, an official at Takigawa High School in Kobe said, "We are not aware that there was any bullying." However, at the time, officials had already questioned the victim's classmates and were aware that defamatory comments about the victim had been posted on the Internet. "If you said that we were lax, that would be right," a school official said, commenting on the news conference announcement. The boy committed suicide on July 3. In subsequent investigations, police arrested a 17-year-old student on suspicion of trying to extort money from the victim. (Mainichi) September 21, 2007 Photo showing private parts of teen who committed suicide was posted on Internet
The Mainichi Shimbun KOBE -- A photograph showing the private parts of a schoolboy who committed suicide was posted on an Internet site, sources at his school said. The site has already been deleted, but the sources said defamatory comments about the victim were also posted on the site along with the photograph. Police have arrested a 17-year-old boy from the school the victim attended on suspicion of attempted extortion. They are investigating the possibility that he and other students were involved in the site. Investigators said a student found the photograph showing the victim's private parts on the Internet site this spring. The site also included defamatory comments saying the victim was a "liar." A note the victim left behind mentioned the site, saying, "It was not something I made." He did not refer to the photograph, but said he was troubled over the disparaging comments. School officials said the site introduced an athletic circle to which the victim belonged. Profiles of members appeared on the page, but the site was closed after it started to be used for personal attacks. Officials said they were sill investigating the claim regarding the photograph showing the victim naked. Four students including the boy who was arrested have been accused of demanding money from the victim. However, school sources said the victim had mentioned that students other than those four had also being demanding money from him, telling him, "The fine for telling lies is 10,000 yen." (Mainichi) September 20, 2007 Classmates of boy who committed suicide accused of making victim pay for food
The Mainichi Shimbun KOBE -- Several classmates of a high school boy who committed suicide have come under suspicion of forcing the victim to pay for their food and drink, sources close to a police investigation into the death said. The news comes after a 17-year-old classmate at the students' private school in Kobe was arrested on suspicion of attempted extortion against the victim. It has also emerged that the victim was made to buy items from classmates. Hyogo Prefectural Police suspect that the victim had been harassed in various ways over an extended period of time, and they are continuing to investigate the case carefully. School officials said that last autumn, when the victim was a second-year student, a teacher found clay on the boy's desk. He suspected harassment, but the boy told the teacher, "It's all right," so he didn't take the matter further. After the victim became a third-year student, he reportedly bought several okonomiyaki (savory pancakes) three or four times a week. A worker at the store asked him, "Why do you always pay? Are you being bullied?" but he replied "It's not like that." Further police investigations found that classmates other than those who demanded money from the boy sold him a bracelet and pressured him to give them 40,000 yen. It has also been learned that a note the student left behind before he committed suicide said he had been worried after finding an Internet site making fun of him. The victim's school said the teacher in charge of the boy in his second year did not act wrongly. "There was no bullying," a school representative said. (Mainichi) September 20, 2007 Student says he was only joking about cash demands to boy who later killed himself
The Mainichi Shimbun KOBE -- A student under arrest for attempting to extort money from another student who later leaped to his death from a school building in July said he only initially demanded the money as a joke, police said. The 17-year-old student from Takigawa High School in Kobe stands accused of attempted extortion. He allegedly demanded the victim pay money as a penalty for lying. "It was just a joke at the beginning," police quoted the arrested student as saying. "But I came to believe he might pay." Police have not confirmed if the victimized student paid any money to the arrested student. (Mainichi) September 19, 2007 Schoolboy arrested for trying to extort money from teen who committed suicide
The Mainichi Shimbun KOBE -- A 17-year-old student accused of trying to extort money from another student who leaped to his death from a school building in July has been placed under arrest, police said. The 17-year-old student from Kobe's Takigawa High School, who cannot be named because he is a minor, is accused of attempted extortion. Police said the teen tried to take money from an 18-year-old student in the same class who later committed suicide by leaping from the school building. Prefectural police suspect five people including the student who was arrested demanded more than 400,000 yen from the victim. (Mainichi) September 18, 2007 HYOGO: Extortion cited in student's suicide
The Asahi Shimbun KOBE--A student was arrested Monday on suspicion of attempted extortion against an 18-year-old boy who jumped to his death at his high school here, police said. In a suicide note, the third-year high school student wrote the names of five students who had "asked for money." The student was found on the ground near a school building on July 3 shortly after he was allowed out of class to go to the bathroom. The five students told police they asked the student to pay the money "just for fun," officials said. (IHT/Asahi: September 18, 2007) Kobe student arrested over extortion of suicidal classmate
The Japan Times KOBE (Kyodo) A student at a high school in Suma Ward, Kobe, was arrested Monday on suspicion of trying to extort money from a classmate who eventually committed suicide, police said. According to sources close to the investigation, the 17-year-old suspect, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor, has told police he and some other students made the suicide victim promise to pay each of them ¥10,000 "whenever he told a lie." The suspect reportedly sent numerous threatening e-mails to the 18-year-old victim in early July demanding that he pay ¥50,000. Investigators believe the victim received threats to pay a total of ¥500,000 over several months and was forced to run errands for his classmates, such as buying food. The victim jumped from the fourth floor of the school on July 3 and died. A note he left behind said he had some debts he had to pay off when the summer vacation ended. Holding a news conference Monday, the principal of the boys high school with 1,200 students said the school failed to uncover any bullying against the victim. "We are shocked. We can't believe it," the principal said. "When we consider the charge against (the student), we have to say bullying may have been taking place." After the suicide, the school interviewed about 70 students about the incident. The principal said school officials heard about a game in which a student pays ¥10,000 if he tells a lie. "We just thought it was teasing" among students, the principal said. According to school officials, the suspect was once the victim's best friend. After the student committed suicide, the suspect was in a state of shock and did not come to school, they said. The victim's mother said she did not want to comment on the arrest. The Japan Times Student arrested over suicide of classmate
The Yomiuri Shimbun A 17-year-old student was arrested Monday on suspicion of attempted extortion in connection with the suicide in July of a classmate, 18, who had written in a suicide note that he had been repeatedly harassed by classmates for money. The Hyogo Prefectural Police said the arrested student had admitted the charges. The student who committed suicide was found by a teacher at about 2 p.m. on July 3 after jumping from a school building in Suma Ward, Kobe, about 10 minutes after he left his classroom saying he needed to use the restroom. The police said Sunday the student left a suicide note mentioning the names of several classmates, and saying, "I have been asked to pay money [by the classmates]." The police suspect the classmates' actions pushed the student to suicide. (Sep. 18, 2007) Student held over extortion of classmate who committed suicide
Japan Today KOBE — A high school student in Kobe was arrested Monday on suspicion of trying to extort money from a classmate who eventually committed suicide. According to police, the 17-year-old suspect told police he and some other students made the suicide victim promise to pay each of them 10,000 yen "whenever he told a lie." The suspect reportedly sent numerous threatening emails to the 18-year-old victim in early July, demanding he pay 50,000 yen. The victim received threats over several months and was forced to run errands for his classmates. The victim jumped to his death from the 4th floor of the school on July 3. A note he left behind said he had some debts he had to pay off. At a news conference Monday, the school principal apologized for not being aware of the bullying. He said that school officials had heard about a game in which students pay 10,000 yen if they tell a lie. "We just thought it was teasing," he said. © 2007 Kyodo News. All rights reserved. No reproduction or republication without written permission. |
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