Body of newborn baby girl found in garbage bag in Kobe
CRIME SEP. 28, 2012 – KOBE —
The body of a newborn baby girl was found in garbage bag in Kobe on Thursday morning.
A local resident contacted police at around 1:30 a.m. to report that one of the garbage bags left out for collection contained an object shaped like a baby, Fuji TV reported.
Police rushed to the scene to find the dead, naked body of a baby girl in the bag which was left in the street. A police spokesperson said the child appeared to have been disposed of shortly after birth. Police said that there were no obvious injuries on the infant’s body.
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Woman arrested over murder of 5-month-old son in Kobe
Feb. 13, 2012 KOBE —
Police said Monday they have arrested a 39-year-old woman for the alleged murder of her five-month-old baby son in Kobe.
According to police, the suspect, who has been identified as Yoriko Sugino, works as a cabin attendant for All Nippon Airways (ANA). She was on maternity leave and living with her mother, father and newborn baby in an apartment in Higashinada Ward, while the baby’s father lived and worked in Tokyo, NTV reported.
Police say Sugino met her mother for breakfast on Sunday at around 10 a.m., without her son. According to police, Sugino’s mother asked her where her baby was, at which point she reportedly said she had strangled her baby, NTV reported.
Sugino’s mother then contacted the police and the child was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
During police questioning, Sugino was quoted by police as saying she didn’t enjoy being a mother and that she started to dislike the idea of raising her baby, NTV reported.
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Woman arrested for putting plastic bag over 3-year-old son’s head
KOBE — Dec. 15, 2011
A 25-year-year-old unemployed woman in Kobe has been arrested for allegedly trying to suffocate her 3-year-old son by putting a plastic shopping bag over his head, police said Wednesday.
According to TV Asahi, the woman—identified as Madoka Sakurai—put the plastic bag on her son’s head and then dragged him along the floor in their apartment in Tarumi Ward at around 6:30 p.m. on Monday night, police were quoted as saying. After about 40 minutes, Sakurai called 119 and reported that her son had lost consciousness, TV Asahi said.
Sakurai was quoted by police as saying she got angry with her son after he vomited. She said she had asked him to throw up in the garbage bin but he had not, so she lost her temper and wanted to teach him a lesson, TV Asahi said. But she denied any intent to kill the boy.
Besides her son, Sakurai lives with her 25-year-old husband and her 2-year-old daughter. The husband was out at the time of the incident, TV Asahi said.
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Japan court allows family reunion in U.S. after int’l divorce
Saturday 28th May, 06:00 AM JST KOBE —
A Japanese court has ruled that a Nicaraguan man in the United States can meet with his separated child from Japan for temporary family reunions, a rare decision in an international divorce dispute, attorneys involved in the matter said Friday.
The Itami branch of the Kobe Family Court handed down the judgment March 14, which both the father and mother appealed to the Osaka High Court.
The family court judged that the man’s former Japanese wife, who took their child to Japan after the divorce, must allow the father to meet the 8-year-old child for about 30 days in the United States each year through August 2017.
The court also ordered the woman to have the father and child meet in Japan for about two weeks every year during the period and stay in touch by web camera and telephone.
‘‘It will make the child happier when becoming familiar with the language and culture of the father’’ said Judge Nobuyoshi Asami in the judgment.
But the court rejected the claim by the father to take back the child from his former wife and transferred custody of the child to her, saying the child has become accustomed to life in Japan.
Details about the family such as names, ages and sex of the child were not disclosed.
The woman’s attorney said, ‘‘I appreciate that the court approved the transfer of custody but I’m worried that the high frequency of required meetings and telephone calls could be a burden to the child.’’
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )19-year-old man arrested for beating up woman’s 5-year-old daughter
Thursday 26th May, 09:40 AM Japan
KOBE —
A 19-year-old man was arrested in Kobe on Wednesday for allegedly assaulting and injuring the second daughter of the 31-year-old woman with whom he was living.
According to police, on May 20, the 5-year-old girl was taken to a doctor who informed the Kobe Child Welfare Center of the possibility that she was suffering from abuse, after discovering that she had sustained broken ribs and that her body was covered in bruises. The center in turn informed the police on Wednesday, at which point the nature of the alleged assaults came to light.
The testimony of the woman’s other children led to the man’s arrest. The man began living with the woman and her four children in March of this year. The woman’s eldest son, aged just 8, and eldest daughter, aged 7, both told police they had witnessed the man punching and kicking their sister since April.
The children’s mother was quoted by police as saying: “I had no idea any mistreatment had been taking place.”
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