Teenager Saws off Mother's Head
A psychiatric evaluation on a teenager who has been accused of killing his mother and sawing off her head and arm has shown no clear diagnosis of mental illness. The teen, whose name has been withheld because he is a minor, is suspected of stabbing his mother to death at their home in Aizuwakamatsu, Japan on May 15, as she was sleeping. He then sawed off her head and right arm, spray-painted the arm white and planted it in a flower pot, and took his mother's head to a police station, where he turned himself in. When questioned by police, he reportedly said, "I didn't care who I killed." and that that he had found his mother and younger brother "disagreeable."The accused had reportedly started neglecting school and was truant for about one month before the killing.
Based on the results of the psychiatric evaluation, public prosecutors are likely to submit a written opinion that criminal punishment is appropriate when they send the teen to a family court in the near future.
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