44 Days Of Hell-The Murder Of Junko Furuta

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‘’44 Days of Hell- the Murder of Junko Furuta,’’ (2012), reported about a girl in Japan, who had been sexually violated for 44 days long and was raped for over 400 times. She was kidnapped by a group of boys and one of them, known as Jo Kamikasu, who was been rejected by Furuta. She was kept captivated in his parent’s house. The boys forced Furuta to call her mother and claim that she ran away for home but with a friend and was not in danger. The torture begins, from getting fed with cockroaches and urine to drink, forced to masturbate and strip in front of others, severely beat up countless times, set off fireworks in her ear, mouth, vagina, and burned with cigarette lighters on her arms, legs, face and eyes. Finally, on the 44th days, she

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