A man under arrest for kidnapping and confining an 11-year-old girl in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, had remodeled his home with an additional lock and soundproof walls to confine the girl for a long term, investigative sources said Monday.
With a well-meditated plan, Takeshi Fujiwara, 49, a self-proclaimed illustrator from the city of Okayama, wanted to “raise the girl as I wish,” the suspect was quoted as telling the investigators.
The girl, Sakura Moriyama, was found at Fujiwara’s home late Saturday, taken to a hospital and was confirmed to have not been injured. The man was arrested at the scene.
According to the investigators, a room on the first floor of Fujiwara’s house was modified in December to add another lock that can be locked and opened from outside. Windows were removed after the room was made soundproof, they said.
Moriyama vanished in Kurashiki July 14 after telling her mother on the phone that she would go home from school. Before the disappearance, a girl who looked like her was seen talking with a man beside a silver car near Moriyama’s home.
NHK said the silver car was frequently seen near her school since around February.
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