Shiga Suicide Bullies “Will Be Arrested”

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Police have finally announced plans to arrest the bullies who tormented their classmate into killing himself, whilst it has emerged that the ringleader’s mother was head of the school’s PTA and along with the teachers apparently did everything she could to pin the blame on the victim’s family.

3 of his schoolmates are expected to be charged with 6 charges of assault and extortion, although as they will be charged as juveniles they will not face any time in prison.

As the scandal unfolded it was widely rumoured that the parents of the boys responsible were well connected, and this was one of the reasons the school refused to accept any connection with the victim’s suicide and the bullying it did nothing about.

It appears this was correct – the father of “boy A” was the director of a company in Kyoto, and his mother chaired the school’s PTA.

Rather than investigating the circumstances of the bullying, she was busily spreading word that “the boy who killed himself had family issues, and our boy was only listening to his problems” and that “they were just sparring to let off steam.”

She had her son transferred to another school after the boy’s suicide, fearing a scandal might disrupt his education, and he is said to have proved popular at his new school (although other reports say he has been “ignored”).

Whilst police still have still yet to arrest the boys accused of bullying their classmate to death, they have been busy making other arrests – including a 69-year-old man who sent a letter to the prefectural governor in which he threatened to kill one of the bullies, and a 16-year-old high schooler who managed to get the school closed with a fake bomb threat.

Whilst public and political pressure is now such that it is hard to imagine police not arresting the boy’s tormentors, there is much doubt as to whether they will face any meaningful sanction or any action will be taken against the school authorities who ignored his plight and then attempted to cover up the scandal.


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    Comment by Anonymous
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    Comment by Fate-
    22:59 02/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    I hate bullying...This story needs more blood...

    Blood of the victims enemies!

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    Comment by Lonesnipa
    23:03 02/08/2012 # ! Neutral (-0.2)

    Not like that'll bring the boy back to life.

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:12 02/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    But it will definitely reduce potential victims.

    Avatar of Lonesnipa
    Comment by Lonesnipa
    23:47 02/08/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    No it won't. People will be assholes anyway.

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:09 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    It will since there is chance murderer can get out if prison .

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:12 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    yep, assholes will be assholes.....

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:11 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Asshole will think twice to be an asshole, if they know what punishment will happen to an asshole.

    Not 100 percent reduction, but definitely they will think twice.

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:30 02/08/2012 # ! Good (+0.8)

    An irrelevant point, it isn't meant to.

    Avatar of Lonesnipa
    Comment by Lonesnipa
    23:51 02/08/2012 # ! Neutral (-0.2)

    Yea well excuse me for believing that causing bodily harm to someone because they did it to someone else, causing a cycle of violence is not the answer to this shit.

    Comment by Anonymous

    World is in deep shit because of people like you.

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:18 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Maybe not the answer, but a bloody good start!

    Comment by Anonymous
    01:22 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    @Lonesnipa
    you are excused for you silly worldview.

    If someone does wrong, there needs to be a punishment fitting the crime. Otherwise there was no crime, not in the mind of the perpetrator, anyway.

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    Comment by Lonesnipa
    04:19 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    This is why we have jails. Or, in my ideal universe, those who commit crime have a mandatory time spent in the army. Without pay, having to run miles in heavy packs. Things like that. Eye for an eye tooth for a tooth is all well and good but not really all that logical. Say a dude kills a hundred people. Is killing him once really going to make it better?

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    Comment by Bigall
    02:45 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Yes but if they make an exemple of those bullies, they may actually help other students in the same situation.

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:56 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    2 wrong does not make a right. Ever heard of that?

    Comment by Anonymous
    01:19 03/08/2012 # ! Good (+0.6)

    Depends on the direction

    → + → = 2→
    → + ← = 0

    →... wrong
    ←... wrong

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:00 02/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    In my schooling days, there was a kid who was always trying to irritate others, but he never got in trouble. Anyone who reacted to him did, including myself.

    At the time, I couldn't understand it... but I later realized that his parents were on the school council. Many of the bullies and troublemakers in every school I was at had parents or older siblings with connections. They tried very hard to pin the blame on everyone but their own kids.

    Same thing happens everywhere, not just in school or specific countries. Moral of story: people are assholes.

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:01 02/08/2012 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    JUSTICE!!!! WE WANT JUSTICE!!!!

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    Comment by Crazy_O
    Comment by Anonymous
    03:21 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Japanese society is mad. If they get indeed judged guilty of a crime no matter how petty it will have a negative impact on their future life.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:05 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Hmm... god forbid they learn that there are in fact eventual consequences for their actions. I'm not for condemning anyone forever, especially younger kids, and not as much so, but yes, for adolescents as well. Their brains are not fully developed and able to fully process everything, but enough to know right and wrong very cleanly. If you show them the weight of their action, without ruining their life, they WILL learn from it unless there is a real, physical chemical issue they've had at birth. Right now they are haughty and unremorseful because they know they can get away with it. If that changes, so will they.

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:39 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    It is better as an example. Destroy their lifes so others will know that their lifes can be destroyed by their crimes.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:51 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Finally some justice, look who's delusional now?!? Bitches!

    Comment by Anonymous
    02:36 04/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Death? Or exile?

    DEATH... BY EXILE!!!

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:06 02/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Wow, so all those times in school mangas like Onizuka where a PTA mother comes in and strong-arms the schoolboard in absurdly ridiculous is actually a thing that happens outside of fiction.

    Also "boy A" probably loses points in the public eye now that everyone knows he's a rich kid.

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:12 02/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Kill the bullies anyone ?

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:25 02/08/2012 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    No.

    Kill the bullies parents & the teachers involved.

    They tried to pin the blame to the victim's family &
    cover up the whole thing.

    They're the worst ones.

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:57 02/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Can't we just do both? You know that bully is just going to grow up to abuse his own kids, then the cycle begins again.

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:26 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    It's kind of weird how they only arrest the boys when they should be arresting the parents and teachers because they ARE part of the whole scandal by trying to cover up the whole thing instead of cooperating with the police....

    Comment by Anonymous

    Japanese are a bunch of smalldicked assholes who dogeza against any socially higher figures. Unless it's their own kid, they won't give a single fuck.

    Japan doesn't need to fear about the Pacific Rim Belt or the tsunamis, because its own citizen will be its own undoing.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:13 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Figures only truth gets downvoted by silly japs. Fuck off to your hide holes and keep your mouth shut.

    Comment by Dark Mage
    02:54 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    As much as I'd like to see the teachers gunned down as well you have to work within the system.
    I say revoke their teaching licenses and charge them with obstructing justice.
    I heard Japanese prisons can be pretty bad even worse then Sheriff Joe Arpaio's tent city.
    Not sure if it's true though as other stories I heard say they're not as bad as the short term jails.
    The police ran detention centers in Japan the equivalent of jail in the US supposedly are very bad places to end up "IE the UN sometimes actually gets off it's lazy ass and investigates complaints by US and EU tourists kinda of bad." so maybe a protracted trial with a relative short sentence could actually be a worse punishment.

    Comment by Anonymous
    05:39 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Well, I'll just play the devil's advocate by saying this.

    Fan enough rage on the Japanese boards, and one of those kids will die by vigilantism. They already know his name and his parents'. Just need to give them enough push to do it.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:41 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    No, let the bullies go, and jail the parents and teachers who helped them get away with it.

    They PTA president and teachers violated the public trust and they absolutely must be held accountable. So make an example of them to any others who let that shit pass.

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:14 02/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Man wtf is up with schools in Japan. I always thought that all that stuff that happens in anime was either made up or just exagerrated, guess not.

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:17 02/08/2012 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    Ack. In the end, it's all politics. This is why we can't have nice things.

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:21 02/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Wow, so all those annoying moments in school mangas like Onizuka where a PTA mother suddenly appears and strong-arms the schoolboard with her ridiculous demands are based on things that actually happen in real schools... I'm a little surprised, honestly.

    Also I imagine "Boy A" lost a lot of sympathy once it was discovered he was a rich kid.

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    Comment by SnooSnoo
    23:30 02/08/2012 # ! Quality (+0.9)

    > “the boy who killed himself had family issues, and our boy was only listening to his problems”
    > “they were just sparring to let off steam.”

    Fucking sub-human trash

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    Comment by nope
    23:35 02/08/2012 # ! Quality (+0.8)

    This is just a move to calm the public, they'll let them off with a 100 yen fine or some dumb shit when everything cools off.

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:41 03/08/2012 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    You won't believe the rage being inflamed in the boards.

    At this rate, the cops will NEED to bring satisfactory punishment to that kid. Otherwise, some other concerned citizen could be taking matters into his own hands and do worse things to him like that 69 year old man planned to.

    Comment by Dark Mage
    02:29 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Yah I was pretty surprised by that one.
    If they let the bullies and school off the hook someone might go Law Abiding Citizen here and we'll get another crazy story.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:19 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Japs only bitch, never actually take action. Grow a fucking spine and get shit done.

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:39 02/08/2012 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    It's like in the animes. The mother of the bully is head of the PTA! 0_0

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:51 02/08/2012 # ! Good (+0.8)

    The plot! It deepens...

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:00 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    it's just like my chinese cartoons

    the transfer student with a secret in his past.
    he probably also sits in the second to last seat next to the window in his new school.

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:22 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Let's go deeper... into that mothers pussy... with a knife...

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    Comment by ChaosConsuming
    09:58 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    I Said it once and I'll say it again...

    SHOTGUN JUSTICE!!

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:54 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Where's the hobo with the shotgun when you need him

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:55 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Onizuka Walks in with a costume and settles things the GTO Way!

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:19 04/08/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Needs real world onizuka

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:03 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    also some j-Drama that i used to watched back in the day.

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    Comment by Riiku
    00:15 03/08/2012 # ! Quality (+0.8)

    Just wait for the dead boy to return as a mysterious character bend on vengeance

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    Comment by Myballz
    01:18 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    It already past friday the 13th last month so just wait for the news of a Japanese guy in a Hockey Mask...

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:21 03/08/2012 # ! Good (+0.6)

    Thought it only happens in anime... Guess real life is weirder than fantasy, eh.. ^^;

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    Comment by Ciscotaku
    01:16 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    or like in hentai, next the boy is gonna rape the hot teacher then use her to get the hot classmate then into student council president.

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    Comment by cats2
    01:23 03/08/2012 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    Great Teacher Onizuka, except without the bully admitting it was their fault.

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    Comment by Erranty
    04:11 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    And the whole "Not being a girl" thing.

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    01:50 03/08/2012 # ! Good (+0.7)

    I know this has been said before, but...

    This is now all-out GTO territory.

    Comment by Dark Mage
    02:18 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Figure the mom needs to be kicked off the PTA permanently and maybe also spend some time in jail or do community service.
    If the latter make sure to sentence her at the peak of road kill season or be forced to pick up trash in the dirtiest most Yakuza infested part of the city.
    As for her kid I already got a suitable punishment for him but it will require flying him to the US to finish his education in a Juvenile detention center in Detroit or LA this is actually a form of poetic justice as he'll get his ass kicked on a daily biases.

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    Comment by Imyou
    03:35 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    I've read so many comments now to the effect that no group in Japan inspires as much fear as a PTA... it seems almost unanimous. I guess they have a huge amount of clout, at least in school settings.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:58 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Next thing someone will contact hellgirl! O.O

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:01 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Where do you think the geeks writing anime and manga got the idea?

    That's a case of entertainment reflecting reality.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:43 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Good for nothing parents spawned good for nothing children... who would've thought?

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:25 03/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    You're right. So very cliche. Next we find out the butler did it.

    Comment by Anonymous
    20:59 04/08/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Chances are that anime took real life instances as a nice plot or setting and relatable. Not the other way around. Well I guess it's one way to raise awareness...possibly.






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