<figure id="attachment_468516" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-468516" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="18302e08"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/05/5212078135d7bd6c07b6652e4318da11.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-468516" class="wp-caption-text">Where did a 41-year-old man with a wife and child end up after his &#8220;death escape&#8221; with a high school girl more than 20 years his junior?</figcaption></figure>
<h3><span class="strongInContent"> After 4 Days of &#8220;Death Escape&#8221;&#8230;</span></h3>
<p> On October 27, 2013, the Chiba District Court sentenced Jun Suminaka (41 years old at the time of the trial) to five years in prison (six years is the recommended sentence).</p>
<p> Several months earlier, in May of the same year, Suminaka, a resident of the Tokai region, was arrested by the Chiba Prefectural Police on suspicion of kidnapping a minor, and was accused of taking advantage of a high school girl, A (15 at the time of the incident), whom he had met on a social networking service and who was suicidal, calling her up, taking her around for four days, making her stay at a hotel, and otherwise kidnapping her. On the day Ms. A disappeared, the police found her in a hotel room.</p>
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<p> On the night of the day Ms. A disappeared, her mother reported her missing, and Suminaka surfaced from security camera footage. The prosecutors charged Suminaka with kidnapping a minor. Later, he was indicted twice for sexual intercourse without consent.</p>
<p> The trial revealed the circumstances of the case. About a month before the incident, the defendant met Ms. A on a social networking service while she was struggling with her relationship at work. Through repeated communication, Mr. Suminaka felt that Ms. A was <span class="strongInContent">&#8220;reassuring</span> &#8221; and irreplaceable, and he began to think about leaving his wife and getting married, saying, <span class="strongInContent">&#8220;I want to be with her all the time.</span></p>
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<p> On the other hand, Mr. A was troubled by domestic problems, and at one point complained to Suminaka that <span class="strongInContent">he wanted to die.</span> One morning, on a LINE phone line he had left connected the night before, Mr. A cried and complained <span class="strongInContent">, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to go to school,&#8221;</span> to which the defendant replied <span class="strongInContent">, &#8220;I&#8217;ll go see you,&#8221;</span> and headed for Tokyo.</p>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" They met up in Akihabara and immediately went to a hotel."></div>
<h3><span class="strongInContent">You wanted to do it without contraceptives, didn&#8217;t you?&#8221;</span></h3>
<p> After meeting Ms. A at Akihabara Station, Suminaka entered a nearby hotel to change clothes because Ms. A was in school uniform, and they immediately engaged in sexual intercourse. Despite Ms. A&#8217;s request for contraception, he <span class="strongInContent">said, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to kill myself anyway, so I don&#8217;t need to worry about contraception,&#8221; and</span> had sexual intercourse without using contraception. Thereafter, they continued to have unprotected intercourse.</p>
<p> After leaving the hotel, they took the Shinkansen bullet train from Tokyo Station to Sendai, where they stayed overnight; on the second day, they stayed overnight in Aomori City, and around noon on the third day, they headed for the Jogakura Bridge, which they had decided to use as a suicide site. However, Mr. A <span class="strongInContent">said, &#8220;I&#8217;m scared.</span> I <span class="strongInContent">don&#8217;t want to die.</span> Around noon of the fourth day, a police officer found them in Aomori City, and Mr. A was taken into custody.</p>
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<p> At the trial, the prosecutor pursued the question of whether Suminaka really thought he was in a romantic relationship with a minor more than 20 years his junior. When asked why he did not use contraception during sexual intercourse with Ms. A, Mr. Suminaka stated, &#8220;I myself thought I was going to die.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I myself thought I was going to die, so I thought anything was fine because I was going to die. Above all, I thought that the act itself without contraceptives was something that could only be done with absolute trust, so I sought it out.&#8221;</span></p>
<p> To these words, the prosecutor responded <span class="strongInContent">, &#8220;Talking about seeking absolute trust and saying it&#8217;s not okay because you&#8217;re going to die are two different things. After all, you wanted to have sex without contraceptives, didn&#8217;t you?&#8221;</span> When pressed, Suminaka admitted, <span class="strongInContent">&#8220;&#8230;&#8230; Yes.</span></p>
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<p> At the sentencing hearing, Suminaka was sentenced to five years in prison (six years is the suggested sentence).</p>
<p> In explaining the sentence, the presiding judge <span class="strongInContent">stated, &#8220;The defendant is immature in sexual self-determination and has engaged in sexual intercourse with the victim, who is incapable of sound judgment, in accordance with his sexual desires. The degree of violation of the victim&#8217;s sexual freedom is great, and there are concerns about the negative impact on the victim&#8217;s healthy development in the future.</span></p>
<p> Suminaka did not file an appeal, and his sentence has since been finalized.</p>

<p> The YouTube video introduces in detail how Suminaka came to believe that he was in a romantic relationship with Ms. A, the entire &#8220;escape&#8221; with Ms. A, and his obsession with Ms. A that he showed during the trial.</p>
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 In October 2013, a man was sentenced to five years in prison by the Chiba District Court. The man was accused of having non-consensual sexual intercourse with a high school girl he met on a social networking service. What details of the crime were revealed in the trial?

Video: &#8220;I&#8217;m going to kill myself so I don&#8217;t need contraceptives&#8221; &#8211; Sentence handed down to man who &#8220;escaped death&#8221; with a high school girl.

Video: “I’m going to kill myself so I don’t need contraceptives” – Sentence handed down to man who “escaped death” with a high school girl.

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