The lovable little girl who used her sob story about needing cash to get to her sick grandfather’s sickbed to such great effect has been arrested after swindling some $500 out of the nearly 30 people she approached.
Nagasaki University was previously reported as warning their students about the girl’s antics and they subsequently took the matter to police.
Police subsequently took a 12-year-old girl (actually a middle-schooler, not an elementary schooler as was first reported) into custody for juvenile delinquency, accusing her of fraud.
According to police, she loitered about Nagasaki’s Peace Park approaching people with her story about needing to “borrow” money for the taxi fare she was desperate for in order to reach her sick grandpa in a local hospital – in the case she was reported for, she duped a 23-year-old female student out of ¥3,000.
However, her swindling spree did not end there – in total she approached 29 people for cash, successfully gulling 18 of them out of sums ranging from a miserly ¥120 to an enjo-level ¥5,000.
In total, her scheme netted at impressive ¥43,280.
There is a certain amount of concern that the girl is likely to be turning her attention to another criminal trade now she has been stripped of this profitable little gambit:
“She barely got into middle school and she’s already in custody…”
“At 12 she’s already at her life’s crossroads.”
“I’d have gone with her, to make sure she was OK.”
“People who abuse the kindness of others like this are despicable!”
“It’s hard to think she’d have the guts to do this on her own like that – sounds more like she was bullied into doing it.”
“Over here in Tokyo you’d probably be arrested for attempted kidnapping if you offered to take her there…”
“It seems she mostly hit female students and schoolgirls. She didn’t approach perverted gentlemen such as ourselves.”
“One guess as to what she’ll be doing for cash next.”
“The little fraudster should have taken a page from that 13-year-old soap girl‘s book!”
“Pretty shrewd kid if she cooked it up herself.”
“This is what you get if you don’t let middle schoolers work.”
“The one who paid 120 haggled her down well. I guess they offered her the child’s fare for the bus or train ride home…”
HAHAHA it amazes me how these kind of antics can still work these days, I guess anyone will be willing to do almost anything for a “innocent” cute looking 12 year old girl…………. I’m surprised no one asked her to be a sex toy for a bit and THEN they give her money…. or maybe it did happen but just no in official records 😉
for the person(s) interested in the statue (via wikipedia):
Established in 1955, and near to the hypocentre of the explosion, remnants of a concrete wall of Urakami Cathedral can still be seen. Urakami Cathedral was the grandest church in east Asia at the time. At the park’s north end is the 10-meter-tall Peace Statue created by sculptor Seibou Kitamura of Nagasaki Prefecture. The statue’s right hand points to the threat of nuclear weapons while the extended left hand symbolizes eternal peace. The mild face symbolizes divine grace and the gently closed eyes offer a prayer for the repose of the bomb victims’ souls. The folded right leg and extended left leg signify both meditation and the initiative to stand up and rescue the people of the world. Installed in front of the statue is a black marble vault containing the names of the atomic bomb victims and survivors who died in subsequent years.
hey, thanks. the first thing I saw from the news was the image, so I thought it had something to do with the statue. lol
have vagina, will cry
She’s lucky some creepy old man didn’t offer to give her “a ride to the hospital”. Then you’d have a missing persons case.
Sentence: gangbang!