Man beats 10-year-old girl unconscious in Ibaraki

IBARAKI — A 10-year-old girl remains unconscious and seriously injured after being beaten by a 30-year-old man in Ibaraki Prefecture, police said Monday. According to police, eyewitnesses reported that the girl was being attacked on a road near a karaoke establishment in Ryugasaki at around 4 p.m. Sunday. Fuji TV reported that her attacker fled and was chased to a bowling alley roughly 500 meters away by a passerby on a bicycle. Police cornered him there and arrested him a short time later. Police say the suspect, identified as Hiromi Noguchi, 30, punched and kicked the girl during the attack, causing her to suffer a brain hemorrhage. Doctors say the girl is alive but that she remains unconscious and in a serious condition. Noguchi was quoted by police as saying that he had approached the girl with the intention of sexually assaulting her, Fuji reported.

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