Story highlights
- 15-year-old girl escapes two-year captivity when door left unlocked
- Alleged captor apprehended with wounds to his neck, will be formally arrested upon release from hospital
Tokyo (CNN)A
15-year-old girl from Saitama, Japan has escaped a two-year long
imprisonment after her captor inadvertently left his door unlocked,
allowing her to escape, police tell CNN.
The
teenager was abducted in 2014 and allegedly held in apartments in Tokyo
and Chiba prefecture. She was able to escape from an apartment in
Nakano Ward, Tokyo, on Sunday and called her mother before alerting
police.
Her alleged abductor, Kabu
Terauchi, a 23-year-old university graduate, was detained in Shizuoka
prefecture. He was discovered in Ito, Shizuoka prefecture early Monday
morning, around 100 km (62 miles) southwest of where the girl was found.
He was covered in blood and holding a box cutter, a Saitama prefectural police public affairs official said.
He
had reportedly tried to kill himself to avoid arrest but survived and
is recovering in a hospital from self-inflicted injuries to his neck. He
will be formally arrested when discharged.
Two-year ordeal
Local media report
that the girl told police she escaped when her captor had gone to the
electronics district of Akihabara to buy a mobile phone and forgot to
lock the door when leaving.
The girl, who remains unnamed, disappeared in March 2014 after she came back from her school in Asaka, Saitama prefecture.
A
note was left in her home post box then, saying that she was going to
stay at her friend's house for the time being and that there was no need
to look for her.
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