A youth who murdered two children and injured three others in Kobe in 1997 has been transferred from a medical reformatory outside Tokyo to an ordinary juvenile reformatory, judicial sources said Thursday.
The 19-year-old male had been receiving psychiatric treatment and counseling at the reformatory.
The Justice Ministry decided to transfer him, however, as he has shown signs of progress and is ready to participate in ordinary reformatory programs, the sources said.
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