“A staff member who worked at a facility for disabled people in Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture, has been arrested for allegedly beating a resident of the care home to death in March of this year.”
“[F]ull recording was conducted in 3,479 of a total of 4,979 cases of questioning on suspects mainly with intellectual disabilities in fiscal 2018.”
“Three people, allegedly affiliated with the Sumiyosh-kai crime group were arrested for forcing a hearing impaired hearing woman to write a document apologizing for an offense she did not commit.”
“The investigative committee that was charged with examining the correspondence and reports of the city in a case where a disabled man was confined by his father for over 20 years in Sanda city, Hyogo Prefecture, has produced a summary of report which suggests neglect was a factor in the disabled man’s death. In addition, the report recommends to periodically review the situation of persons with disabilities by reviewing manuals etc. so as to give priority to safety and livelihoods of persons with disabilities.”
“In March this year, Tsutomu Tanaka, 76, of Hyogo Prefecture, was charged with killing his eldest son, who had a mental disorder, at his home. On July 7th the Kobe District Court Himeji branch with Miyako Fujiwara Presiding Judge sentenced to Tanaka to four years in prison (eight years maximum imprisonment prison sentence).”
“We want to separate people from the perpetrators so as to protect the users.”
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“Kanagawa Prefectural Police of Tama Police Station arrested Kono Matsunuma (72) of Nakanojima Tama-ku Kawasaki-shi for killing the eldest daughter on Monday, killing her eldest daughter. Her daughter’s, Hiroko san (46) died of suffocation and the investigation to switch charges to homicide. According to the police, Matsunuma allegedly insisted that “My daughter had congenital heart disease and I was pessimistic about the future.””
“We do not allow abuse, we are disappointed and our people with disabilities are angry.”
“The Mainichi Shimbun reported the from uncle of the suspect in about the case of killing of 3 people on the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train line, and the headline “is the suspect autistic?” was used In this expression, giving the impression that the autism is the cause of the crime successively, the Mainichi Newspaper corrected the headline and apologized on 11th.”
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