OSAKA — Mamoru Takuma, who is under arrest for the June 8 massacre of eight children at an Osaka elementary school, was forcibly hospitalized instead of indicted for a March 1999 assault, sources said Tuesday.
This was done in order to confine Takuma, 37, and keep him under observation for a longer period of time, the sources said.
Takuma faced criminal charges in March 1999 for allegedly injuring teachers at an elementary school in Hyogo Prefecture where he worked by lacing their tea with tranquilizers.