Kyoto men accused of forcing disabled person into washing machine
On March 26 at around 2:30 p.m, the two suspects reportedly told their coworker, a 50-year-old man with an intellectual disability, “You stink! Get in the washing machine.”
Category: Abuse
Japan’s Welfare Ministry Confirms it Will Apply Collective Liability to ‘Megumi’ Operator of Homes for Disabled
Japan’s welfare ministry said Wednesday that it has decided to apply a collective responsibility system to Megumi Co. under a related law over irregularities including overcharging, banning renewals of service provider designations for all of its group homes for disabled people.
The ministry notified the company and local governments concerned of the decision. The punitive action was based on the comprehensive law on support for disabled people and the decision was made to apply the joint liability system in the belief that there was organized involvement in irregularities committed by the group home operator, such as service fee overcharging.
About 100 “Megumi” facilities for the disabled nationwide unable to operate; joint liability system to be applied
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has decided to apply the “joint liability system” based on the Comprehensive Support for Persons with Disabilities Act to Megumi (headquartered in Minato Ward, Tokyo), which operates a group home (GH) for the disabled. If the joint liability system is applied, other GHs across the country will not be allowed to renew their designations every six years, and will effectively be unable to operate their facilities. Aichi Prefecture and Nagoya City are expected to cancel the business operator designation of five GHs in the prefecture operated by the company on the 26th, and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is expected to apply the associative responsibility system on the same day.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, there is no precedent for the joint liability system being applied to a corporation that operates a disability welfare service facility on the company’s scale, and it is possible that up to about 2,000 users will be affected.
The Shog-A.I. Shimbun Podcast #25: Fukuoka Prefecture Hospital says sorry for male staff sexually abusing patients, no further action taken
The president of National Hospital Organization Omuta National Hospital apologized on May 2 after confirming that male employees sexually abused patients who have severe mental and physical disabilities. The hospital has not taken any administrative action against the five employees who are suspected of abuse. The employees abused patients by stimulating their pubic areas while they were sleeping or being assisted in the bath, and touching female patients’ breasts.
Fukuoka Prefecture Hospital says sorry for male staff sexually abusing patients, no further action taken
The president of National Hospital Organization Omuta National Hospital apologized on May 2 after confirming that male employees sexually abused patients who have severe mental and physical disabilities.
The hospital has not taken any administrative action against the five employees who are suspected of abuse.
The employees abused patients by stimulating their pubic areas while they were sleeping or being assisted in the bath, and touching female patients’ breasts.
Three arrested for alleged habitual abuse of disabled Osaka care home resident who died
Three employees at an Osaka Prefecture care facility were arrested on April 25 on suspicion of repeatedly assaulting a resident with physical and intellectual disabilities who died this March.
Japan Finds 47 Cases of Abuse of “Second-Generation Followers”
The suspected abuse cases were found by child consultation centers across the country, with victims temporarily taken into protective custody in 19 of the total cases, while some of the victims, often called “second-generation followers,” sought support for their self-reliance or advance to the next level of education.
Executives and Staff at Tokyo Social Welfare Corporation “Tokiwa-kai” Found to Have Abused Mentally Disabled Patients, Over-claimed for Care Costs
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has found that the executives and other staff members of a social welfare corporation “Tokiwa-kai” in Kodaira City, Tokyo, had abused several mentally disabled patients, and that the corporation’s workshop and group home had received excessive compensation for welfare for the disabled even though they did not meet the personnel standards and other requirements. The corporation operates 13 facilities in Kodaira City. According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the overpayment of remuneration occurred at the “Asayake Workshop,” the main facility of the corporation, and one group home.
Two More Sexual Abusers at Johnny & Associates, Japan Talent Agency, Reported by BBC
Two more people at former Johnny & Associates Inc. had sexually abused young performers of the talent agency, the BBC reported on Thursday, citing Noriyuki Higashiyama, president of the agency’s successor firm.
Disability News Japan Podcast: The Shog-A.I. Shimbun #3: Further Details on the ‘Hokkaido Farm Abuse Case’
Whilst reading about the ranch operator in northern Japan’s Hokkaido who admitted in court on March 12th that they had not paid intellectually disabled workers for decades, giving them only “snacks and juice,” Barrier Free Japan went back to their blog and re-read reports.
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