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Sachiko Eto is the cult leader who violently assaulted, killed and seriously injured seven believers she didn't like under the guise of exorcism.
She had a husband with gambling addiction and became addicted to religion after consulting her local prayer warrior about them.
Incident
From late 1994 to June, 1995, seven believers who had been told by her at Eto's house that" they were possessed by a fox" were assaulted with drum bees, led by another believing man, killing six and seriously injuring one.
On July 5, after a seriously injured female believer was hospoitalized, the police raided her house and found the decomposing bodies of six believers and arrested four involved in the assault.
Background
Eto and her husband, the gambler, live in a housing development and initially worked as a cosmetics salesman. They join a religious organization headquartered in Gifu Prefecture. They started a religious activity there colled "Ogamiya-san", but were excommunicated after two years for using the name of a organization's HQ without premission.
Since 1992, after her husband disappeared, Eto began acting as a guru, calling herself a god. Eto began to live together with 10 believers. At the same time, the violence they called "exorcism" became more and more violent.
Eto had a love affair with one of her believers, Yu Nemoto, but She thought that another female believer who lived with him was making eyes at him, and out of jealousy, Eto beatthe female believer's front with a drumstick, claiming that "she was possessed by a bad fox". In addition, she ordered her eldest daughter, Yuko Eto, and her female believer's husband to be beaten and killed.
Later, he assaulted and kille believers who questioned Eto's methods or refused his offer of debt.
The hospitalized female believer who led to the discovery of the incident had also perticipated in this ritual.
After incident
Eto was arrested along with four others who were involved in the rituals, and in 2002 she was sentenced to death by the Fukuoka District Cout on the grounds that it could hardly be called a religious act.
In 2008, the Supreme Court also sentenced her to death, and she was executed on September 27, 2012. Also the other four believers were sentenced to imprisonment.