The sasebo slashing happened on June 1, 2004. the two girls involved with this case are Natsumi tsuji aged 11, and Satomi Mitarai aged 12. During lunch time in Okubo elementary school in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. Natsumi lured Satomi into an empty class room, and bound her to a chair with duck tape, she then slashed her wrists and throat with a box cutter, and returned back to class covered in the blood of Satomi. A teacher of the two girls stumbled apon the body of Satomi when she was looking for her, she then called the cops and Natsumi was placed in custody. While being taken into custody natsumi was reported to have confessed to the crime and was repeatedly saying “I am sorry, I am sorry”.
She spent the night at the police station, crying, and refusing to eat or drink. Natsumi at first said there was no motive for the crime, but later said that the motive was because of comments left on her website by Satomi. She said that the comments left by Satomi were calling her a “goody-goody” and commenting on her weight.
Photos of Satomi
SENTENCING
On September 15, 2004. A Japanese family court ruled to institutionalize Natsumi, putting aside her young age due to the severity of the crime. She was sent to a reformatory in Tochigi Prefecture.
The court originally sentenced her to two years of involuntary confinement, but was later extended by two years. She was then let out of reformatory sometime in 2008, making her 15.
ABOUT NATSUMI
Natsumi was said to be a sort of nerd. She spent most of her time in her room online.She loved horror, her favourite movie was Battle royal which is a very gory movie about a bunch of teenagers fighting to the death, she liked the show Monday Mystery Theatre which is a murder mystery, and she liked the red room, which is a gorey Japanese flash animation. She also played basketball. After the the killing a mental evaluation was done on Natsumi, and she was diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome.
Photos of Natsumi (she is on the right on the 1 one and she is on the left in a Nevada hoodie in the 2 one. The girl next to her on the left of each photo is Satomi)
INTERNET RESPONSE
Because of Natsumis young age people on 2chan became obsessed with her, she was instantly made into a meme. People often referred to her as Nevada Tan due to a Nevada hoodie she’s wearing in a class photo.
Some fanart of Natsumi (artists unknown)
EXTRA
Her name was not supposed to be released due to Japans privacy policy’s but a drawing with her name was released due to a mistake by news. She is known as Girl A in most articles about her.
There’s also a lot of fake photos of Natsumi online, lots being cosplays and Iv found a couple of her face edited onto random girls. I have only found 2 confirmed photos of her. Also there are photos of her as an adult but they are only speculated, I’ll put some of these at the bottom.
I’m sorry if I forgot anything or I messed up any facts! Thanks for reading (^з^)-☆