JUSTICE FOR JUNKO!
Criminals… there are thousands of them in the world. Whether they are lurking in the shadows or showing themselves freely in the world!
Criminals are all different. Some may be petty thieves, selfish liars, and some might be waiting with a knife!
They may be young or old, slim, or fat, merciful, or dangerous.
Let us look at one of the most overlooked…but serious crimes, ‘The Murder of Junko Furuta’.
Junko was a young 16-year-old Japanese high-school girl who was smart, pretty, and basically perfect! She refused drugs (which was seen as ‘lame’ in the eyes of gangster-like teens) and was envied by many girls.
Hiroshi Miyano was a bully in the school and was interested in Junko. The rumor was that he had connections to the Yakuza gang, a dangerous Japanese gang.
Hiroshi was feared by everyone, yet Junko had the nerve to say ‘No’.
This angered Hiroshi, and so he, and 3 other boys, abducted Junko! She was forced to call her parents and tell them she WASN’T in danger. And even when the parents of the boy whose house they used for their crime figured out what the boys were doing to Junko, they kept quiet! Though, they were not to blame. They were afraid of Hiroshi and his connections to the Yakuza.
Junko Furuta suffered 44 days of raping, torture, humiliation and much more before dying of traumatic shock on 4th January 1989. Her captors stuffed her body in a 55-gallon concrete drum and disposed off it in Koto, Tokyo.
Her case was called the “concrete-encased high school girl murder case” since her body being found in the concrete drum.
Now for the most infuriating part…
Even though their crime was HUMONGOUS, they were not given a harsh sentence! They were considered juvenile and so were not put to death. Three of the boys spent less than 8 years in jail while Hiroshi Miyano spent 17 years in jail, and in the middle of the sentence the judge pushed his sentence to 20 years in jail instead of reducing it.
Most of the felons are now walking the streets freely, no harm coming to them. THAT is the most ridiculous part of this!
The people who read the story believed that the murderers should have been given a harsher punishment for their atrocious crime:
“Junko Furuta, someone who enjoyed attention, didn’t smoke, didn’t drink alcohol nor did she do drugs. Overall, she was a well-rounded person yet it was her fate to suffer 44 days in hell, simply because she said ‘no’. This case didn’t sit right with me. They weren’t executed simply because they were under-age. So was Junko. she could have been living a happy life with a family, instead she was tortured, and the people who did it are roaming free.”
“Although this case happened a long time ago, I still believe Junko Furuta should have gotten the justice she very well deserved. The four men involved need to be locked up and deserve to be given a death penalty for murdering a teenage girl.”