Troll Fined $81 After Victim Kills Herself

A cyber-bully has been fined for sending hateful messages to a professional wrestler before she took her own life.

Japanese wrestler and Netflix reality show star Hana Kimura was just 22 years old when she killed herself on May 23 last year by inhaling toxic gas in her Tokyo home.

Kimura became a target for internet trolls after the airing of an episode of Terrace House: Tokyo in which she was shown arguing with a housemate who had damaged her expensive wrestling gear. 

Before her death, Kimura posted photos on social media suggesting that she was being cyber-bullied and was struggling with self-harm. The last post she ever made, uploaded the day before her death, featured a photo of the star and her cat along with the message "goodbye." 

On March 31, the Washington Post reported that a man from Osaka who had been convicted of the crime "insults" over his cyber-bullying of Kimura had been fined 9,000 yen—the equivalent of $81.

The unidentified man, who is aged in his 20s, posted multiple comments about Kimura. In one he told the wrestler that she had an "awful personality" and in another he asked her "when will you die?"

Japanese media reported that after Kimura's death, the cyber-bully apologized to her family for his actions. 

The Terrace House show, in which six young people shared a home in Japan's capital city, started in 2012 but was later canceled. 

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