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4:49 pm - 07/27/2012

15-year-old bullies arrested in Osaka Prefecture



OSAKA--Police have arrested three middle school students on suspicion of assaulting a classmate in an apparent case of bullying in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture.

The three boys, all aged 15, allegedly burned the hair of a 14-year-old boy and broke his nose, the police said.

The Neyagawa Police Station announced Wednesday they had arrested the three boys, third-year students at the municipal middle school, on suspicion of crimes including assault and violation of the law on punishment through physical violence. The police also took into protective custody two other boys, both aged 13, for alleged violation of the law and notified a child consultation center about the case.



According to police, the boys admitted they had bullied the boy since he was a first-year student at the school, quoting one of them as saying they bullied him "just for fun."

The five boys were allegedly involved in tying the arms of the boy behind his back and burning the hair on his head with a lighter at a city park at about 1:30 a.m. on May 20. One of the five went further on May 28, punching the boy in the face in a classroom at their school and at a city shrine, police said. The boy's injuries from this incident took about two weeks to heal.

The boy's homeroom teacher noticed his face was swollen when he came to school the next day. After the teacher confirmed he had been bullied by the other boys, the school's principal consulted with the police station, and the boy and his guardians filed a damage report with the police.

The boy reportedly told the police the other boys had used him to run errands and extorted pocket money from him since he was a first-year student. "I had no choice but to obey them. If I refused, they'd hurt me by kicking and punching me," the police quoted the boy as saying.

According to the Neyagawa city board of education, the boy was the subject of violence on two occasions in his first year by the three boys who were arrested. The school recognized that bullying was going on and made sure the boy was in a different class from the alleged bullies in his second year, which they believed had solved the problem. However, the boys began spending time together again in the third year.

The police said one of the two 13-year-olds is a second-year student at the same school and the other is a second-year student at Moriguchi municipal middle school in the prefecture.





Source: Yomiuri, Asahi

Well, the response is better for this one. I hope the bullies learn their lessons/get what they deserve.

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inachan89 27th-Jul-2012 11:13 am (UTC)
wait,so they knew about the bullies since they put him in a different classroom...they really thought it was enough and didn't anything else??
phililen3 27th-Jul-2012 11:35 am (UTC)
That is how teachers generally react/think. That and give "stern warnings" as if that will do anything. Bullies don't listen to authority.
inachan89 27th-Jul-2012 11:47 am (UTC)
seriously,as if trying to help a student would be too troublesome..
asth77 27th-Jul-2012 02:01 pm (UTC)
lol are you serious?
Of course they're going to do that first and I would do the same.
We are talking about children right? Should it be an easy decision to send them to prison and fuck up their lives no matter what they did? Especially in such society.
Imo, the reaction of that school was appropriate considering the situation and the age of the bullies and bullied. They did everything that was needed.
inachan89 27th-Jul-2012 06:09 pm (UTC)
i never said they should have send them to prison,it's just that from the way it's written it's like they didn't even try to talk with those boys.Please don't put things i didn't say in my mouth.
flutterbychild9 27th-Jul-2012 03:25 pm (UTC)
At least they did something. Most bullies would back off if that happened...obviously these kids were made of different stuff.
taciturndream 27th-Jul-2012 09:07 pm (UTC)
Yeah, I had the same reaction. I think that could even give bullies a "oh yeah? then look what I'll do next" attitude. The thing that bothers me the most is that exactly, that if those boys had had some type of "help" before, this wouldn't have happened. But in that time they might have said that it was too extreme...and we always have to wait for a boy to have his nose broken to think, oh, so this could have actually been prevented. It happens too much in my country with rapes and street murders.
kaleido37 27th-Jul-2012 11:25 am (UTC)
The fact that he had to go through that type of bull shit since he was a first year is horrible, but at least the reaction to this is a lot better than others.

wtf would posses those young boys to make them bully someone for that long? smh.

Edited at 2012-07-27 11:25 am (UTC)
citrus_lime 27th-Jul-2012 12:41 pm (UTC)
The boy's homeroom teacher noticed his face was swollen when he came to school the next day. After the teacher confirmed he had been bullied by the other boys, the school's principal consulted with the police station, and the boy and his guardians filed a damage report with the police.

Finally some fucking normal progress.

This world needs to open MANY MORE child consultation center tbh.
koichiko 27th-Jul-2012 12:42 pm (UTC)
Glad they got arrested. I bet they are scared shitless.
lilly0 27th-Jul-2012 12:51 pm (UTC)
How can kids go that far? Really... I mean, burning his hair? These are not five year old children. They know the danger of fire! What if the boy would have caught fire and died a cruel and horrible death?

Seriously, no words for that.

However, the response is a lot better here. I believe it has to be a huge shock for the bullies that they were actually arrested!
dramaticsurgeon 27th-Jul-2012 12:54 pm (UTC)
I kind of wish every teacher and principal of every school would follow this as a normal course of action, especially where physical violence is involved.

It's such a weak excuse from schools that bullying is a "rite of passage" meant to toughen children for the real world. No sane person in the real world would punch another human being and not expect to get sued and/or taken to jail for it.
flutterbychild9 27th-Jul-2012 03:27 pm (UTC)
No sane person in the real world would punch another human being and not expect to get sued and/or taken to jail for it.

This. Idk if Japan has assault/battery laws, but in the US those exist. Not to mention burning someone's hair is a fire hazard. >.>
eureeka 27th-Jul-2012 01:35 pm (UTC)
That's not bullying. That's assault and battery. Hopefully these measures against kids like this will stick, and not die down after everyone forgets about Otsu.
katsuno_hitomi 27th-Jul-2012 05:01 pm (UTC)
AMEN!
stole_away 27th-Jul-2012 02:03 pm (UTC)
burned the hair of a 14-year-old boy and broke his nose

wtf. at least they finally did smthg about this. ugh
sibylblack 27th-Jul-2012 02:06 pm (UTC)
I always wonder about the parents when these things happen... that poor boy :(
volatilewind 27th-Jul-2012 04:11 pm (UTC)
It's always easiest to point the blame at the parents, but often that isn't the case at all. You can be a perfectly good parent and still end up with a little bully because of outside influences, just as horrible parents can raise good children. It's all about how kids react to different situations.
stole_away 28th-Jul-2012 02:56 am (UTC)
this.
mjspice 27th-Jul-2012 04:01 pm (UTC)
Good! Teach those jerks a lesson.
frozenstar35 27th-Jul-2012 05:08 pm (UTC)
Putting the bullies in a different class. Very fucking useful. Shit like this is why kids never bother to tell adults about being bullied in the first place.

I'm glad for once bullies are getting an appropriate punishment by law.
hisjulliet 27th-Jul-2012 06:16 pm (UTC)
This is the type of punishment I want to see bullies face in America. Bullies here get a pat of the back and it disgusts me.

Hopefully these bullies face the jail time they deserve.
mizumi10 28th-Jul-2012 12:07 am (UTC)
certainly a better approach. but...these kids just don't know when to quit do they?
vanlindda90 28th-Jul-2012 03:56 am (UTC)
I guess I'm glad that this has put more attention on bullying in the media.

Hopefully this will give schools and parents a new look on this. Sometimes I do feel for these teachers. We want to wish that our classroom is a room full of angels but instead (*opens door) wild kids. lol.
ditzyandroid 4th-Aug-2012 05:26 pm (UTC)
Bullies are vile no matter what country they are from, but I swear Japanese ones are particularly evil. That said, I hope they really help that kid.
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