“Under the new initiative, when an elderly person or an intellectually disabled person who tends to have dementia is arrested by shoplifting; a counselor from a social welfare corporation entrusted by the prefecture who received information from prosecutors, lawyers, police will visit person in a detention facility. “
“On February 2, a woman called a municipal disabled person’s life support center, and on the same day the woman visited the center and said that the city councilor corresponded.”
“A director of a ‘work transfer transition support office ‘that conducts vocational training for persons with disabilities in Kurume city in Fukuoka Prefecture after it was found he acted indecently against female clients of the facility at the end of last year, committing actions from breach of the Comprehensive Support Law for Persons with Disabilities.”
“The father told the city, “since my eldest son’s mental illness is rampant I put him in it 25 years ago.” ”
“The suspect is specifically accused of locking his son in a wooden cage roughly 1 meter high, 1.8 meters wide and 90 centimeters deep in a prefabricated shed beside their residence from around 10 a.m. on Jan. 18 to 10 p.m. on Jan. 19.”
“A 20-year-old woman with intellectual disabilities using Sakai City’s Akebono-koen facility “Sakai Akebono-en” described how she was told that she was “married” to a male official (31) and how that she was sexually abused…”
“The Yokohama District Court found Hayato Imai guilty of murdering Tamio Ushizawa, 87, Chieko Nakagawa, 86, and Nobuko Asami, 96, by throwing them off balconies at the facility in the city in Kanagawa Prefecture.”
“The prosecution explained at the opening statement that defendant smoked on a daily basis and the defendant recognized that fire spreads. On the other hand, the defense defense argued that “the defendant has an intellectual impairment, impulsively lights a fire…” “
“Prosecutors on Thursday said they are seeking the death penalty for a man charged with murdering three elderly residents at a Kawasaki nursing home in 2014 by throwing them from balconies.”
“A judgement by the courts of an unemployed male in the city (87) who was questioned for theft as a shoplifting in the supermarket in Kobe was held at the Kobe District Court on 23rd, and judge Kurao Atsushi said ” It is not admitted that there was willful intent of theft”
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