Police in Osaka have arrested a 30-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of killing a 17-year-old girl at a hotel last month.
According to police, Shunsuke Fukui, of no fixed address, has admitted strangling the girl between 5:20 p.m. and 6:40 p.m. on Sept 28, Sankei Shimbun reported.
Fukui was arrested after being located at a manga cafe in Yokohama on Wednesday.
Police said the two met through a social networking site (SNS) and are believed to have met in person for the first time on the day of the incident.
Police said the girl, who lived in Ikuno Ward, was identified through her smartphone. She checked into the hotel in Dotonbori with Fukui early in the evening but security camera footage did not show Fukui leaving the hotel.
He told police he left the hotel through the window of the room on the second floor.
When the hotel employee entered the room, he found the girl collapsed on the bed, with no visible injuries and her clothes in disarray. Her smartphone and other items were left in the room, but her wallet was gone.
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DanteKH
Unemployed, murderer and pedophile.
How many times did we read similar article this year?
Most likely he didn't want to give her the money for the service, so he murdered her instead.
MilesTeg
How is that so many of these murderers and other criminals are unemployed.
Alongfortheride
Again we have a judgement call from someone who has no idea.
Yohan
A person who is interested into a 17 year old girl is clearly NOT a pedophile.
To call him a murderer and unemployed might be correct, but calling him a pedophile is plainly wrong.
owzer
My bet is she was trying to extort him (for taking her to a hotel). He freaked out and strangled her. Yes, it's his fault for killing her. And girls who get into sexual relationships with grown men should be punished if they are doing it for money. They need to know that if they get caught, they will be punished.
But I bet 10 times as much that that will never happen.
Corey
Yohan
Agree. Just because a woman is under 18 by one year does not suddenly make her a “child” - which is what “pedophile” refers to, or at least should refer to. (The term gets skewed for political purposes now)
Gene Hennigh
Oh, I get it. If the girl was trying to extort the man, she deserved to die. I totally disagree. Pedophiles often are pretty good at luring women into bad situations. But if she were extorting him, why, that's a whole different matter.
Abe234
Paedophiles have no interest in children who have gone through puberty.
Abe234
Gene HennighToday 10:20 pm JST
please check the definition of pedophile if you wish. I would hate to think we’re gonna label a 18, 19,20 year old male a paedo under that interpretation. Paedophiles,have absolutely no sexual interest in women, or teenagers who’ve gone through puberty. I think most men understand the difference between going out with a 17 year old and a 7 year old.
WoodyLee
I just feel sorry for her family brothers and sisters if she had any, loosing a family member for a murderer will never be easy.
I hope he gets punished severely, in this case the death penalty should be considered !? even though i do not support it.
Strangerland
There is the definition, and then there is colloquial usage, which is to refer to sickos who sleep with minors.
If most people are using a word a certain way, and understanding it that way, language evolves.
descendent
Pretty impressive they caught this guy so quick, and way up in Yokohama. Just goes to show how easily they can track someone nowadays.
Zaphod
DanteKH
Unemployed and murderer, yes. "Pedophile", no. She was 17, and not a prepubescent child. Words have meanings.
We do not know the details of the story, so that is just empty speculation.
puregaijin
This article was just so hard to get through. Yes she met him in a hotel and all, but in the end she was just a young girl probably went to school or college.
One wrong turn……
garypen
Theorizing is difficult, without knowing what type of SNS site it was where they first met. It may have been a place to arrange "escorts", as most of the commenters seem to be assuming. Or, it may have been a suicide-assistance website, which, unfortunately, do exist.
She may have been murdered against her will. Or, it may have been consensual, as difficult as that may be for most people to understand. Of course, in the latter case, any sexual molestation would not have been consensual. And, the people who troll those sites looking to "help", are just serial killers.
In any case, I knew they would catch the guy, when I first read about the murder here, not long ago. Too much CCTV footage plus mobile phone data.
parforthecourse
StrangerlandOct. 10 11:28 pm JST
So, you think language should only evolve how YOU want it to? Maybe if people would try using words by their ACTUAL definitions - instead of trying to move the goalpost on what they want them to mean for a particular agenda - there would be less disagreement in the world.
The so-called cultural/colloquial definitions of "racism", "sexism", "homophobia", etc. have all evolved - but only for the purpose of shutting down anyone with different views.
And I highly doubt "most people" would immediately think "pedophile" when they hear about or see an adult man with a 17 year old girl. The guy is a thief and a murderer and, if they find he also sexually assulted her, add rapist to the label. Definitely not pedophile.
Zaphod
parforthecourse
Spot on.
nandakandamanda
The only clue we get is that her wallet was missing. That really does not look good for his prospects.
Hoping the family of this poor girl get due process, and not lynch-mob so-called 'justice'.
Abe234
StrangerlandOct. 10 11:28 pm JST
could please define where your age cut off points are for these sickos? 18 year olds dating a 16 year old? 16 year old dating a 14 year old? 19 dating a 16 year old ? 20 year old dating a 17 year old? Please define your interpretation of paedophile and the age cut off point for a sicko? Where are the goal posts?
in some countries you can legally get married at 16, and have a family? Vote? And even join the military.All adult things!
Gaijinjland
I’m more disturbed that a lot of you are more hung up on the definition of “pedophile” than the fact that a girl was murdered.
Yohan
GaijinjlandToday 07:44 pm JST
I’m more disturbed that a lot of you are more hung up on the definition of “pedophile” than the fact that a girl was murdered.
I see nothing wrong with correcting a person who is calling a criminal (likely a murderer) to be a pedophile, despite he clearly is NOT a pedophile. Murderer yes, but not a pedophile.
Why? Because his crime has nothing to do with prepubescent children.
About this case, good to know that police found out who did this and arrested him. The case is still under investigation. Nobody denies the fact that a 17 y/o female was murdered.
lostrune2
What a waste