confiscate

勉強会でもリスニング素材に用いられましたが，このおぞましい事件について様々なことが少しずつ明らかにされています。

Nagoya student took photos of corpse, said she felt ‘fulfilled’ after killing

NAGOYA – The Aichi Prefectural Police said Friday that the 19-year-old Nagoya University student who has admitted killing a 77-year-old woman last month apparently used her cellphone to take pictures of the victim’s corpse.

The police confiscated the phone from the student’s Nagoya apartment, where Tomoko Mori’s body was found. They said they were still trying to verify when the photos were taken and why.

The student, whose name is being withheld as she is a minor, was arrested Tuesday. She killed Mori by hitting her with a hatchet on Dec. 7, police said.

According to investigators, the student said she’d had the hatchet since she was in junior high school and felt “fulfilled” after killing Mori.

She also reportedly told investigators that she has had a desire to kill someone since childhood and allegedly admitted to poisoning one of her classmates at a private high school in Miyagi Prefecture.

The boy reportedly fell ill and NHK said he suffered permanent damage to his eyesight.

今回取り上げる単語は“confiscate”です。意味は「…を[…から]（公式に）没収[押収、徴発]する」（『ジーニアス英和辞典第四版』大修館）とあります。先生が以前，「国庫に入れる」ことが語源とおしゃっていましたが，"to declare property of the fisc"が，その定義です（fiscは（古代ローマの）国庫）。

没収された女子大生の携帯電話には、遺体の写真が残されていたとの事です。felt “fulfilled”とあることから，これも先生がおっしゃっていましたが，彼女はnecromania（死体（に対する）性愛、死体愛好症）なのでしょうか。高校時代には友人に毒を盛ったということも明らかになり、以前から犯罪への関心がものすごく高かったとされています。（Green）

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/30/national/crime-legal/nagoya-student-took-shots-corpse/