「誰でもよかった」
昨日、帰宅すると、愛妻が、『高校生が母親の頭を持って警察に自首した』と訳のわからぬことを話しかけてきた。事実だった。この少年の心の闇が、何故そうなっていったのか、科学的な解明が待たれる。高校生なのに、自宅外通学?文武両道の優秀な少年が何故?だれでも良かったって?母親も他人も同じなのか?以下読売新聞から転載17-year-old boy turns self in with severed head@$:High schooler tells police he killed motherThe Yomiuri ShimbunFUKUSHIMA--A 17-year-old high school student was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of killing his mother after turning himself in at a police station in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, carrying her severed head, police said. According to the police, the boy, in his third year at a prefectural high school, came to Aizuwakamatsu Police Station at about 7 a.m. on Tuesday with the head in his school bag. He told the police he had killed his mother at about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday. The police went to the boy's apartment in the city, where they found the headless body of the mother. The boy was quoted by the police as saying: "I killed her by myself at home early Tuesday morning while she was asleep. I wanted to kill somebody, whoever it was." "I was hoping that a war or terrorist attacks would occur," he reportedly told the police, indicating that he had developed a loathing toward society in general. Tuesday was his mother's birthday, the police said. The police identified the head and body as belonging to his mother, 47, and were questioning the boy about the motive for the killing and why he severed the head. According to sources close to the boy, he regularly visited a hospital in the city due to a developmental disorder that makes it difficult for him to build interpersonal relationships. The boy's clothes were covered with blood when he came to the station, the police said. The police found a kitchen knife and a saw in the room where the body was found, believed to have been used in the killing. They quoted the boy as saying he bought the saw at a home improvement center in the city. According to the police, the boy's apartment, where he lives to attend school, is in a quiet residential block in the city, about 60 kilometers from the family home in Onuma County. He was living with his younger brother, who goes to another high school. The mother was employed as a child care worker in Onuma and was believed to have been visiting the apartment on an errand. A classmate said the boy was absent from school since before the Golden Week holiday period over two weeks ago. "He kept to himself and rarely talked to people," the classmate said. Akira Fukushima, an emeritus professor at Sophia University and expert in criminal psychology said: "I've never heard of a suspect turning himself in with a severed head. But it's important not to react hastily and listen to the boy's story." Fukushima called for calm. "It's likely that many factors, such as chronic disease and living environment overlapping intricately, are behind the offense. It's necessary to consider his treatment and rehabilitation after conducting a psychiatric test and discover the full truth of the crime," he said. The boy's father, grandparents and another brother all live at the family home in Onuma, where the boy also lived until starting high school. A 78-year-old neighbor of the family said: "The boy was earnest and he would greet me with a lot of energy. He didn't seem like a boy who would commit a crime." A 64-year-old man who lives near the boy's apartment said: "It's unthinkable to sever a head and bring it to the police. It's more shocking rather than frightening." At the boy's school, one of the area's leading high schools, students were sent home at about 10 a.m. (May. 16, 2007)転載終り