Category: Aichi

by Michael Gillan Peckitt September 8, 2021 Number of comments0
Abuse Aichi Care Disability Intellectual disabilities Japan

Former Aichi facility worker sentenced to three years for assaulting people with intellectual disabilities

Defendant Mizuno apologized in the final statement, crying, “I never hated the residents and I don’t know why I did that.”

by Michael Gillan Peckitt September 14, 2018 Number of comments0
Abuse Aichi Disability Japan Nagoya

Reported abuse of disabled people in Aichi prefecture rose to 560 in 2017

“There were 100 physical instances such as violence in descending order of abuse, 54 psychological cruelty such as verbal abuse, economic abuse of using and managing property without the consent of the person himself / herself There were 48 cases, abandonment of nursing care 16 cases, sexual abuse 11 cases. Seventy-five of the victims had intellectual disabilities, sixty mental disorders, 45 physical disabilities, and four developmental disorders.”