A man (20) who helped a lost and tearful little girl (6) find her way to her grandmother’s distant abode has been arrested for child kidnapping, we hear.
The girl had apparently been scolded by her mother and was tearfully malingering in the street on afternoon. At this point the man passed by, and asked the little girl what the matter was.
She responded “I want to go to granny who lives in Misato City’s house”, with this being some 11km distant. The good Samaritan opted to take her with him in that direction.
Upon arrival, as the girl did not know the address of her grandmother, he called upon a police office in the vicinity of the station there.
Police immediately deemed him suspect, all the more so for having the little girl in his car,and promptly arrested him for abducting the girl.
The kidnapper says of his crime: “There was a little girl crying, so I asked what the matter was. She said she wanted to go to her granny in Misato’s, so I took her with me as I was headed over that way”.
It appears the girl had been scolded by her mother over the unspecified matter of a textbook, and became upset and left her house alone.
Via Itainews.
2channers are alternating between decrying the entrenchment of apathy, and ridiculing the man for not keeping his nose out of matters not his concern.
Some do however raise the point that he might have done better to inform police of the girl’s predicament.
Even this might have been too much for police though; we hear a tale from one poster saying that he was arrested for going shopping with his own young daughter, with police grilling him for hours and unable to believe a father would do such a thing – he was only rescued when his wife was urgently summoned to the station…
Thats sad and reminds me of that one episode of shigofumi.
That episode MADE ME CRY!
thats what i thought too!
Oh, yeah, I remember this part. It seems cases like these are often in Japan. How stupit can they be? I wonder, if I ever visit Japan and asks for direction from a little girl, will they arrest me for seducing?
Yare yare…
OMG ! That man just helped the girl .If i had been there i would have do that way too. Poor him !
see its better just to leaves lolis alone no matter how cute
I’m sure he learned his lesson: If you see someone being in need, avoid trouble and leave him alone.
Sad.
Well I guess that depends on the situation. The lesson for this story, don’t help little girls, especially if you are a grown-up, that will only give you trouble.
no good deed goes unpunished. such a shame.
The Pedo Finder General in action I guess…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvsoVdvtZC4
looks like if this person really wanted to help `poor girl’
it would be much better (for him) to call police immediately.
That’s what he did, he went to the local police, they are just acting stupid and overly paranoid, if he wanted to kidnap her why the hell would he go to the local police office with the girl and as near as possible to were she lives .. seriously !!!!
As much as Pedophiles are disgusting the overly paranoid people who just keep throwing random accusations of pedophilia at innocent people are equally the same.
“not keeping his nose out of matters not his concern.”
I call nonsense on this one !!!
Wonder if any of those accusing him would have said the same if that man saved his daughter, if you are looking for your lost daughter you will surely wish for someone to find her and bring her right back to you instead of her being lost on the streets and never found again .. or found by some actual pedo !!!!
> That’s what he did, he went to the local police
yep, but after driving her out of her home 11km away.
the right thing i meant was to go to police right from the place where he met her.
i do not blame this man, but he rather made her parents some serious trouble, don’t you think?
anyway, sometimes, before doing something good, you should think about consequences.
While it may seem kind that he was taking the little girl to her grandparents, he was also breaking a number of laws.
Simply put:
1) He wasn’t the child’s parent/guardian.
2) Child’s parent/guardian had *no* knowledge of the situation
3) He was a complete stranger to this little girl.
While his intentions were good, they are irrelevant, he did abduct this child. What do you think he would have done if the little girls grandparent wasn’t at home?
Any parent would be understandably terrified if their elementary school aged child disappeared for god knows how long in the custody of a relative stranger (let alone total stranger), despite their intent even I would have called the cops and filed charges even if they were my own family.
Your reply paints a really sad picture of the world. I’d hate to live in a world where there was so much distrust.
The main problem here is that the parents were neglecting their child. She was alone, and not being watched. A stranger should be able to rescue abandoned children and take them where they need to be.
His only error was trying to find the house instead of going directly to the police first.
We have a saying here: “No good deed goes unpunished”.
Sad but true.
Agreed~
Good ol’ Japan, always showing that neighbourly spirit!
I feel sorry for him, but he probably shouldn’t have called the police.
if he didn’t i think that would have made it worse
maybe tat man’s face r just look scary tat many ppl might think him as a bad guy or something lol
I think the society is too sensitive when grow up male helping or just talk to little gal..If this happened to me, I’ll find female or police right away for help….
Other man arrested because shopping with his young daughter???may be every father need some ID or paper to prove their relationship when they hang up & keep saying ” she is my daughter” when they are walking……
Such a stark contrast from just reading about Japan’s group and shame culture.
Looks like Japan is now all about the shame with none of the “group”.
Where’s all this lovey dovey “we’re all in this together” group culture mentality? This is like Christianity with the judgmental God only and with the redemption and salvation.
It’s really disgusting how the pedophilia problem in Japan is so out of control that the police need to be that cautious.
I mean it may seem extreme to some of you, but with things as bad as they are it’s not being overly cautious to think that maybe the man is trying to drive the girl someplace bad and that he’s just talking to the police to put her at ease, to erase her doubts of him being a bad stranger.
There was no reason for the man to associate himself with the girl to that extent. When he saw her alone and everything he should have called the police immediately and had them take care of it.
If you go by the statistics, problems with “child abuse” (clearly the definition also varies from country to country) in Japan are actually far less than in most developed countries….
More like reported child abuse is lower.
Sexual offenses are more rarely reported in Japan due to their culture.
Very true (and likely), but then there are no #s to support the idea that it’s a substantially bigger problem in Japan than other developed nations.
Even doubling (tripling?) the report # still falls short of say, America’s reported cases, and it isn’t too much of a stretch to think that Japan, a country with such ludicrously small # of crimes (of all sorts) compared to Western countries would have less incidents.
Here’s what I say:
Child abuse rates are even higher in Western countries, compared to Japan, than the statistics say. If the statistics say it’s 3 times more common, it’s probably more like 10 times in reality.
Because Western culture practically makes it mandatory *not* to report child abuse. I have absolutely no evidence to back this up, but I just *know* Western culture. Hey, I have lived in Western countries for almost all of my life – I’m a bona fide expert! My wild guesses thus demolish any fancy hard data anybody comes up with!
“When the data contradict my prejudices, the data are obviously in error.” Jesus foxtrotting Christ! I can’t stand this crap anymore.
*Sigh* Oh, man. This is so sad. And kills a part of me in the inside.
I’m still hoping to all the things like this to end someday~
good people die fast, remember that.
well..if you guys remember the train rape article posted here? nobody is helping the girl cos everyone get the lesson helping them means putting yourself in trouble XD.
good people die fast, remember that.
well..if you guys remember the train rape article posted here? nobody is helping the girl cos everyone get the lesson helping them means putting yourself in trouble XD.
Congratulations! One more good Samaritan taken off the streets! The next time a Japanese complains about a lack of altruism, just tell them that they did this to themselves.
something like this happened to my friend…
he’s driving his car and saw a bike fall to the roadside,,,,
he said to me, “with my heroic style, I stop my car and help the guy on the bike”
but, then he almost got himself beaten by people nearby, because people think its my friend that crash the bike off the road,,,
people with short thinking is scary, more over if its great in number…
and my friend said, he’ll never gonna do something like that again…
there goes one good samaritan taken off the streets…
Moral of this action: “Tell the police there’s a lill girl lost”
Don’t forget to run away after you called.
then the police will certainly chase him,.,.
And beat him afterwards to make sure he learned his lesson of helping someone, even if it’s a little scared lost girl who needs someone to help her before she gets in real trouble.
He should of just raped her and left her where he found her.
Unfortunately, he probably would’ve gotten in less trouble for that…
Sad.
So, it would be better if he just ignored her, maybe leaving the girl to be raped or to face something like that.
Japanese police seems to be getting a little too paranoid these days.
And Japan isn’t even a country where there are many child abuse cases…
this is the defination of
“No good deed goes unpunished.” :(
Another case of how useless Japanese Police are. They should be catching some serious criminals, not some guy who is helping a girl and has shown no sign of malice or bad intention.
Armageddon can’t come quick enough >_<. So… if you see someone in trouble, you need to be a celebrity/lawyer (and even THAT won’t save your ass from civil suits these days) to pull a MacGuyver to help out? So much for that Christianly ethic.
This kind of story eats away another piece of my heart.
I’d take this in a different yet very related perspective.
SO, what if the 20-year-old person that helped the girl was a woman? Wouldn’t those dumbass prejudicial police suspect?
If they won’t suspect, the matter at hand would not only be accusations of pedophilia (towards men) but also sexism because they are biased over the gender of people that help children IN JAPAN.
If they would suspect, sheesh…the said policemen in the report seriously need to go to hell.
maybe its just better to do something horrible, Japan has a knack for punishing the good and forgiving the perverted criminal, o well Japans the place for me until i need to raise a kid, no man shall take care of my kid without getting arrested for being a good samaritan
*sigh*… so the world doesn’t pay you for being nice huh =/…
No good deed goes unpunished.
What a world we are building :(
I still want to believe that heroes exist, somewhere.
Why did’nt he rape her? it would have made the whole ordeal worth it.
Today’s lesson: Don’t help people. And buy all our playsets and toys.
… Just how laughable can these kinds of stuff get? I’m getting lost and ridiculed.
Well, we don’t know how this guy looks and talks like, some people just make others suspicious.
On the other hand, there was a serial killer who talked cops into giving him his victim back.
This is like the total opposite of any anime I have ever seen; where the main character and the bimbo he’s with help some little kid find her parents, making the two have an even stronger bond in an already sickeningly affectionate relationship. See, real life sucks, that’s why i watch anime and play halo all day.
What about the last episode of GSZS, where Sensei finds loli Kafuka and decides to take her to a police box, only to get accused of kidnapping?
What is this GSZS and how do I watch it?
This is totally wrong! He was trying to take her to her grandmother’s! HE approached the policeman! That’s so lame!
Humanity’s idiocy knows no bound.
Ever touch a little girl, you will be arrested.
Ever talk to a girl, you will be jailed.
Ever dates a woman, you will be shot.
Everything planned by the feminists, everything so organized.
So do all you weeaboo types still want to move there?