FUKUSHIMA -- A psychiatric evaluation carried out by public prosecutors on a teenager accused of killing his mother and sawing off her head has suggested that the boy needs mental care but that he has no clear disorders, sources close the evaluation said.

The evaluation of the teen, whose name has been withheld because he is a minor, also found that his character is underdeveloped, and that he has a low resistance to stress.

Based on the results of the evaluation, public prosecutors are likely to submit a written opinion that criminal punishment is appropriate when they send the teen to a family court in the near future.

The teenager is suspected of stabbing his mother to death at their home in Aizuwakamatsu at about 1:30 a.m. on May 15, as she was sleeping, and then sawing off her head and right arm.

The teen spray-painted the arm white and planted it in a flower pot, and then took his mother's head to a police station, where he turned himself in, police said.

When questioned by police, he reportedly said, "I didn't care who I killed."

The teen had reportedly started to become absent from school after the summer holidays of his second year, and didn't go to school at all for about one month before the killing. During investigations, he reportedly told police that he had found his mother and younger brother "disagreeable." (Mainichi)

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