Go easy on him for what? Regardless of if he did nothing with the girl, there are a lot of alarming things about his actions. JJ JetplaneJune 21 03:50 pm I hope they go easy on the guy if he really is taking in the girl in good faith. The minor will be returned to the family she fears or hates and that can lead to new problems or even tragedy. The only person who listened to her has been arrested. Family counselling would be useful here, something the police should consider.īut the police will wash their hands of it. Then rather than talk to her beforehand they just let it happen. Perhaps she had already threathened to run away or they had suspected something. Parents got worried in a single night for some reason and immediately called the police. Thus I'm assuming she left her phone off or didn't answer when she left that night. That's a high level of disdain right there. He would have had a lot of time to think about that, as she planned this days/weeks in advance and still had not told the parents. There may be more to play out about this case as the man is himself a lawyer, so should have understood that harbouring a minor was illegal. He admitted to the crime.īut that's as far as the facts of the story goes. He's also a lawyer so there's a sense of community support. Thus even if the man assumed her parents knew of the trip, the charges would fall under harbouring a minor not kidnapping or abduction, that seems overly harsh. If she went herself it's not abduction, if she can come and go as she pleases it's not confinement, if the family is not being asked for money it's not randsom, if she had her phone with her it's not a lack of communication. What person doesn't have a phone? Did the parents call her and she didn't answer? Sounds more like she abandoned a bad home situation. Super Mario kimono, Bowser underwear part of gigantic Nintendo/Japanese fashion brand collab © SoraNews24 Beautiful Mt Fuji photo looks like a buggy video game scene Baby tanuki prompts adorable standoff as it tries to get into Tokyo art museum【Videos】 Sources: NHK News Web, TBS via Yahoo! Japan News That’s a semantics argument, though, and in the eyes of the law, saying “Sure!” when a minor asks if they can live with you without their parents’ consent, that’s still generally considered kidnapping.
There’s perhaps a claim to be made that since the girl was apparently the one who initially floated the idea of living at Komiya’s condo, and came of her own free will once he agreed, that “abducting” isn’t the right word for what he did. Komiya has admitted to the course of events outlined above and was placed under arrest on suspicion of abducting a minor. The ensuing search led them to Komiya’s condo, where he and the girl were both present. The girl’s parents, who were unaware of what their daughter had done, contacted the police when she didn’t come home that night. The two became acquainted through social media, where the girl had posted about wanting to leave home, eventually telling Komiya “I’d be happy if you’d give me the option of running away to your place.” He agreed, and on June 13 the girl made her way from her home in Saitama Prefecture, which borders Tokyo to the north, to Komiya’s condominium in Chiyoda Ward. As proof, 29-year-old Takeharu Komiya has been arrested following four days of cohabiting with a high school girl who ran away from home. It’s not the most preposterous setup ever for an anime series, but it’s definitely a case where the situation would quickly lose just about any pretense of wholesomeness in real life. Among the anime that premiered this spring was "Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway." The lengthy title covers most of the premise, as it’s a story about a single young adult salaryman who lets a runaway schoolgirl live with him while she figures out what the next stage of her life is going to be.