Too cruel! Japanese man instructs young girls to trample hamsters to death for filming, earning tens of millions of yen in 5 years

A high school employee in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, made 10 million yen in five years by instructing young girls to trample a large number of hamsters to death and film them for sale. Hamster diagram. (AFP)

So cruel! Motoki Kimura, a 36-year-old male employee of Miyako Fisheries High School in Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, instructed young women to trample a large number of hamsters alive and film them for sale. He earned 10 million yen (approximately NT$20.638 million) in five years. When the prosecutor opened the court on the 5th, he recommended that the judge be sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison.

According to comprehensive Japanese media reports, Kimura Motoki conspired with a 19-year-old woman to kill 25 hamsters in a hotel room in Takizawa City, Iwate Prefecture in February this year. In March, he teamed up with a 21-year-old unemployed Fujisawa Haruka from Morioka City to kill 30 hamsters in the hotel.

When the Iwate Prefecture Morioka District Court held a trial on the 5th, the prosecutor emphasized that Kimura Motoki instructs a woman to kill hamsters in detail and made tens of millions of yen from selling videos. The defense believed that Kimura Motoki needed treatment and hoped that the judge would impose a suspended sentence. Kimura Motoki cried when he appeared in court, saying that he deeply regretted his actions.

The verdict in the case of Motoki Kimura will be announced on December 21. As for Haruka Fujisawa, he was sentenced to one year in prison and three years of probation by Judge Shigeyuki Kosaka of the Morioka District Court on the 6th. Kosaka Shigeyuki pointed out that Fujisawa Haruka committed a cruel crime of disregarding life, but decided to grant a suspended sentence after considering that she had pleaded guilty and promised not to commit the crime again.