Part 8- The Crime (6)

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During their trial, they stated that they thought she was faking a seizure, so they set her on fire again.

She survived these injuries and continued to be raped and tortured. Furuta is reported to have asked her captors on multiple occasions to "kill her and get it over with", but they refused.

Instead, they forced her to sleep outside on the balcony during wintertime and locked her in a freezer.

One of the kidnappers told the court that her hands and legs were so badly damaged that it took her over an hour to drag herself downstairs to the toilet.

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