Not really news, but extremely spooky. GRAPHIC CONTENT: you have been warned.

[Geoluhread]

I was very shocked to read this, I cannot imagine why anyone would put anyone else through this, nevertheless it happened.

The murder of Junko Furuta

On November 22, 1989:
Junko Furuta was a girl in Japan who was held captive in a house by four boys. There, she was ***** countless times, then tortured to death in unimaginable and incomprehensible ways for 44 days. She was 16 years old.

All of this had happened:

DAY 1: November 22, 1988: Kidnapped
Kept captive in house, and posed as one of boy's girlfriend
***** (over 400 times in total)
Forced to call her parents and tell them she had run away
Starved and malnutritioned
Fed cockroaches to eat and urine to drink
Forced to masturbate
Forced to strip in front of others
Burned with cigarette lighters
Foreign objects inserted into her vagina/anus

DAY 11: December 1, 1988: Severely beat up countless times
Face held against concrete ground and jumped on
Hands tied to ceiling and body used as a punching bag
Nose filled with so much blood that she can only breath through her mouth
Dumbbells dropped onto her stomach
Vomited when tried to drink water (her stomach couldn't accept it)
Tried to escape and punished by cigarette burning on arms
Flammable liquid poured on her feet and legs, then lit on fire.
Bottle inserted into her anus, causing injury

DAY 20: December10, 1989: Unable to walk properly due to severe leg burns
Beat with bamboo sticks
Fireworks inserted into anus and lit
Hands smashed by weights and fingernails cracked
Beaten with golf club
Cigarettes inserted into vagina
Beaten with iron rods repeatedly
Winter; forced outside to sleep in balcony
Skewers of grilled chicken inserted into her vagina and anus, causing bleeding.
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DAY 44: January 4, 1989: The four boys beat her mutilated body with an iron barbell, using a loss at the game of Mah-jongg as a pretext. She is profusely bleeding from her mouth and nose. They put a candle's flame to her face and eyes.

Then, lighter fluid was poured onto her legs, arms, face and stomach, and then lit on fire. This final torture lasted for a time of two hours.

Junko Furuta died later that day, in pain and alone. Nothing could compare 44 days of suffering she had to go through.

There are more details in the days in between that could be found here.
For info on what happened to the people involved, click here.

As someone who's dealing with death (especially criminal cases) as a part of their study/work; this has been one of the most shocking things I've read, fiction or real.

[Versus]

I don't even know how I could read that. But 8 years in prison? What the absolute fuck?

[Solumina]

I couldn't, I started but I didn't make it very far, I'm sure it got even worse. I can't even begin to imagine what could drive someone to do that.

[Versus]

I don't blame you. After the first paragraph, I had to remind myself that reading it wasn't as bad as experiencing it; the least I could do was be aware.

Though, I feel really shameful for admitting this, but at some point I think I was able to go through it because it didn't even seem real. It sounds like something an obnoxious child would joke up, not something anybody could actually do. It's horrible.

[Xombie]

This is the kind of shit fucked up directors try to portray but never do justice, and I'm sort of thankful for that, because I don't think anybody needs to see it.

[Miss Absynthe]

I've not been able to look at the information linked because I'm at work.. but unless someone documented the events day by day, there is no way that this much detail would be able to be garnered from forensic examination and post-mortem.

That's not to say that this isn't horrifying. But perpetuating a hierarchy of horror when it comes to violence against people is just going to end with victims being treated badly.

[ape descendant]

I think people are capable of this sort of brutality. I don't know if this story is specifically true or not, but worse stories are true.

My heart is sad now, I've got to go look at some cute kitten pics.

Next time ya post something like this, you might want to include a trigger warning there are people who've been through stuff like that and you can throw them right back to that place.