Japanese Teen Escapes After Being Held Captive for 2 Years

Japanese police early Monday caught a 23-year-
old man who had kidnapped a 15 year old
teenage girl for 2 years. He was bleeding from
the neck from a minor self-inflicted injury as a
result of a failed suicide attempt.

The teenager who is now 15 escaped from his
Terauchi's apartment in downtown Tokyo on
Sunday while he was shopping in Akihabara, a
district known for technology and comic book
geeks, after 2 years of captivity and contacted
the police immediately.

She told the police she was able to escape

because her captor forgot to lock the door after
he left the apartment.

The girl's disappearance from her hometown in
Saitama, near Tokyo, when she was just 13, was
major news in Japan at the time.

The girl was seen wearing a sweat suit and
sandals in the cold weather when she called
home from a pay phone at a train station in
downtown Tokyo. Her mother reported the call
to the police, who raided Terauchi's apartment.

Police said the girl the girl told them that she
was confined in Terauchi's apartment near his
university in Chiba before moving to Tokyo last
month. She said she was always locked inside
and closely watched, but wasn't tied up or put
in chains. She said he sometimes took her
outside but always closely watched her.

Terauchi attended Chiba University during these
2 years he allegedly had the teen in captivity. He
studied to become a Private pilot.

According to AP, he graduated this month and
even had a job offer.

Source: AP