Name: (;;^m^) 2005-05-12 21:37
Man keeps teen girl captive on leash for months
A man who kept a teenage girl chained on a dog leash as he held her captive for three months has been arrested, police said.
Yasuyoshi Kobayashi, 24, from Sapporo, was arrested for illegal confinement of an 18-year-old girl.
Kobayashi was already on probation following convictions for his brutal treatment of two young women in 2003 and another woman lured into his apartment and treated roughly has filed a complaint about him with the police.
Kobayashi denies all the allegations against him.
"I don't understand what you're talking about. I don't remember anything. I'm a loony," he told the police.
Tokyo police said Kobayashi's arrest resulted from his treatment of a then 18-year-old girl from Hyogo Prefecture he met through an online chat site about February last year by pretending he was a woman.
On or about March 8, 2004, Kobayashi forced the girl to meet him in a Tokyo hotel, where he bashed and threatened her and told the girl he would not let her go free, police said.
Police said Kobayashi kept the girl a prisoner as he moved about from various hotels to the Adachi-ku, Tokyo, apartment he was then living in.
After meeting her online by pretending to be a woman, in March he suddenly contacted the girl, telling her he had set the yakuza onto her and urging the teen to get away from her home before the gangsters came and attacked her. He deposited 30,000 yen in her bank account as a "getaway" fund that paid for her to travel to Tokyo.
After taking her to his apartment, Kobayashi slapped a dog collar around her neck and led her around with a chain. He made her strip for steamy photos. Whenever he went outside, he took her with him.
The girl escaped sometime around June 19 last year, running away when Kobayashi was otherwise occupied and seeking refuge in shop.
In August 2003, the Sapporo District Court convicted Kobayashi for assault after he slashed and scalded with boiling water a 21-year-old woman and 19-year-old girl he had forced to live with him. The court ordered him to serve three years in jail, but suspended the sentence for five years. He remains on probation. (Mainichi Shimbun, May 12, 2005)
A man who kept a teenage girl chained on a dog leash as he held her captive for three months has been arrested, police said.
Yasuyoshi Kobayashi, 24, from Sapporo, was arrested for illegal confinement of an 18-year-old girl.
Kobayashi was already on probation following convictions for his brutal treatment of two young women in 2003 and another woman lured into his apartment and treated roughly has filed a complaint about him with the police.
Kobayashi denies all the allegations against him.
"I don't understand what you're talking about. I don't remember anything. I'm a loony," he told the police.
Tokyo police said Kobayashi's arrest resulted from his treatment of a then 18-year-old girl from Hyogo Prefecture he met through an online chat site about February last year by pretending he was a woman.
On or about March 8, 2004, Kobayashi forced the girl to meet him in a Tokyo hotel, where he bashed and threatened her and told the girl he would not let her go free, police said.
Police said Kobayashi kept the girl a prisoner as he moved about from various hotels to the Adachi-ku, Tokyo, apartment he was then living in.
After meeting her online by pretending to be a woman, in March he suddenly contacted the girl, telling her he had set the yakuza onto her and urging the teen to get away from her home before the gangsters came and attacked her. He deposited 30,000 yen in her bank account as a "getaway" fund that paid for her to travel to Tokyo.
After taking her to his apartment, Kobayashi slapped a dog collar around her neck and led her around with a chain. He made her strip for steamy photos. Whenever he went outside, he took her with him.
The girl escaped sometime around June 19 last year, running away when Kobayashi was otherwise occupied and seeking refuge in shop.
In August 2003, the Sapporo District Court convicted Kobayashi for assault after he slashed and scalded with boiling water a 21-year-old woman and 19-year-old girl he had forced to live with him. The court ordered him to serve three years in jail, but suspended the sentence for five years. He remains on probation. (Mainichi Shimbun, May 12, 2005)