Police send suspect to prosecutors over girl's confinement

Police send suspect to prosecutors over girl's confinement

NIIGATA, Japan - Police send to prosecutors on Feb. 13 a 37-year-old man for allegedly abducting and confining a schoolgirl at his house for more than nine years. Blanketed Nobuyuki Sato (C), unemployed, was arrested Feb. 11 on suspicion of forcibly taking the girl, now 19, to his house in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, in 1990 and confining her to the second floor for nine years and two months.

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