Reason of Kidnapping

In most cases, motivation of kidnapping is taking money. For him, it was not for money, but for his personal interest. An eleven-year old missing girl was found in living room of a house forty-nine year old man was living. Police arrested the man in suspicion of confinement. He demanded no money after taking her away. What he had been doing before it was following the girl for months.

The girl was missed in the afternoon last Monday, when she was getting home from her elementary school. There was a person who witnessed the girl talking with a man in the driving seat of a small silver car thirty minutes after she disappeared on her way home. At the time police captured her, she was watching TV on futon wearing pajama, and looked like not understanding what was going on.

Her mother has been worried about someone sneaking her daughter these few months. She reported police in May and June that a man with silver car appeared and suspicious for targeting her daughter for some reason, but the police could not prevent the man to kidnap the girl. The mother bought her daughter a cell phone with the function of global positioning system, which crucially helped in determining where her daughter had been after missing.

The kidnapper was living in Okayama city, which was located to the east of the city the girl lived. He did not frequently communicate with his neighbors. According to news reports, the suspect told the police that he brought her, because he was interested in the girl. “I wanted to raise her as I like,” he told the police. To raise her, he reformed one of the rooms in his house not to leak sound to outside, and attached door-locking system controllable from outside of the room.

It was likely that the suspect had ordinary sense that his activity would constitute a crime and he would be arrested in violation of criminal law. There is no sign of mental disease on him. In most current cases, kidnapping was done with accurate recognition of its risk, which might lead to long-term in prison. That indicated the criminals were reluctant to stay in actual world, in which most women did not want to recognize him. Being arrested might be going to a world disconnected from real cruel world.

Tightening security should be an easy answer. Fundamental solution will be emerged from tightening social ties. Positively talking with stranger, inclusive to someone who looks to be alienated, or stopping bully activities on weak person would improve the society from apathetical community to frank and warm society Japan had long been.