What do you do when you’re forced to face your worst fears? Who do you turn to for help when life as you know it, is being snuffed from under you? Who do you trust when the very people who are supposed to have your back suddenly turn against you and inflict the most grotesque form of brutality against you?

Such was the case of 17-year-old Japanese school girl, Junko Furuta who suffered over 40 days of unimaginable torture at the hands of her classmates before dying on January 4th, 1989. Junko’s nightmare began shortly after she rejected the school bully, Hiroshi Miyano.

Miyano proved he clearly wasn’t emotionally mature to handle rejection and instead, gave into depravity and sheer evil. Innocent Junko was abducted by 4 boys on Miyano’s orders and taken to the home of one of the kidnappers, Nobaharu Minato.

To forestall a manhunt, one of the boys coerced Furuta into calling her own parents and telling them that she had run away from home, but was with “ a friend ” and was not in danger. He also browbeat her into posing as one of the boys’ girlfriends when the parents of the house where she was held were around, but when it became clear that the parents would not call the police, he dropped this pretext.

Furuta tried to escape several times, begging Minato’s parents more than once to help her, but they did nothing, apparently out of fear that Miyano would hurt them. Miyano was at the time a low-level and had bragged that he could use his connections to kill anyone who interfered.

All in all, over 100 people knew of her abduction; none did anything to help, and several joined in the torture.

According to their statements in court, the four boys tortured Junko relentlessly, to such an extent that her face was so swollen she was virtually unrecognisable, she lost bladder control (and was beaten for wetting the carpet), and her body developed a rotting smell.

According to reports, Junko’s torture was as follows;... http://www.unbrokenchords.com/junko-furuta-44-days-hell-gruesome-tale-captivity-abuse-japanese-teen/