The Niigata District Court on Wednesday sentenced a 25-year-old man to life in prison for the murder and indecent assault resulting in death, among other crimes, of a 7-year-old schoolgirl in a central Japan city last year.According to the ruling, Haruka Kobayashi intentionally hit the second-grader with his car while she was on her way home from school on May 7 last year in the city of Niigata, molested her in his car and strangled her to death before abandoning her body on a railway track so it would appear that she had been hit and killed by a train.The court described the crime as "vici…READ FULL ARTICLE