OSAKA (TR) – Prosecutors on the Osaka District Court have demanded a six-year jail sentence for a 23-year-old girl accused of chopping off her live-in boyfriend’s nipples and finger, whereas her protection staff argued for an acquittal, claiming the sufferer consented to the mutilation.
During the sixth listening to for Saki Sato, each side delivered their closing arguments. Sato faces three counts of assault leading to harm following a collection of grotesque incidents inflicted upon her unnamed boyfriend, experiences News Post Seven (May 3).
Prosecutors argued that Sato subjected the sufferer to excessive psychological management and isolation. After assembly on social media in 2020, Sato systematically alienated the sufferer from his household and associates. During their cohabitation in Osaka City’s Kita Ward, she locked his bankbooks and passport in a protected solely she may open, and strictly managed his smartphone entry.
As proof of this captivity, prosecutors offered a message Sato despatched to a former nightclub boss: “I have a man, but I don’t let him have a phone.” Another picture confirmed the bloodied sufferer subsequent to a knife-wielding Sato, captioned, “Made up with this.”
“This is the first time”
The courtroom was offered with horrifying particulars of the three particular costs.
In the primary incident, Sato allegedly severed the person’s nipples just because she “wanted to see if they would grow back” after listening to a rumor. When the sufferer refused, she threatened him with eviction and manipulated him by saying, “If you don’t want to, it means you don’t love me.” As she lower him, she shoved a towel into his mouth to muffle his screams of agony. She later took a photograph of the severed tissue resting on a pair of scissors, including the caption, “Tried cutting off his nipples.”
The violence escalated in a second incident when Sato found the sufferer had a browser historical past for a sex-work web site. Enraged, she bought an axe and ordered the amputation of his ring finger to make sure he may by no means put on a marriage ring with one other girl. The sufferer reportedly took an extreme dose of sleeping capsules to numb the ache earlier than submitting to the mutilation.
Afterward, Sato allegedly rejoiced, saying, “This is the first time I’ve cut off a person’s finger.” When the sufferer requested to go to a hospital, she refused, telling him, “I worked so hard to cut it off, why are you trying to reattach it?” She then photographed the severed digit on a reducing board and posted, “I cut off his finger, so I forgave him.”
Beaten barehanded
In a 3rd incident, Sato demanded the sufferer be crushed with a blunt weapon so he may expertise the identical bodily ache she was enduring following a beauty surgical procedure process. Under extreme emotional duress and the acquainted risk that he “didn’t love her,” the sufferer finally submitted to being crushed barehanded.
Despite the grotesque proof, Sato’s protection staff pleaded not responsible. While admitting the bodily acts befell, they argued the mutilation was consensual primarily based on the couple’s distinctive relationship dynamics.
Currently out on bail, Sato appeared in courtroom shedding her earlier pajama-like apparel for a white shirt, black slacks, platform sneakers and huge glasses. Her protection emphasised that she is taking steps towards rehabilitation.
She is now working a part-time day job 4 instances every week, has offered off her designer items to pay again restitution cash superior by her adoptive father, and is present process psychiatric therapy to deal with her “distorted perceptions of love.”
The courtroom is predicted at hand down its ruling at a later date.