Category: Crime

by Michael Gillan Peckitt June 21, 2018 Number of comments0
Crime Disability Japan

72-year-old mother arrested for killing her daughter, “I was pessimistic about the future.”

“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.””

by Michael Gillan Peckitt June 11, 2018 Number of comments0
Crime Disability Discrimination Japan Media

Newspaper deletes articles and apologizes for suggesting ‘Shinkansen stabber’ is autistic

“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.”

by Michael Gillan Peckitt May 25, 2018 Number of comments0
Crime Disability Japan Sexual abuse Welfare

Intellectually disabled woman in Nagano awarded damages for sexual abuse at care facility

“A 20-year-old woman in Nagano prefecture with an intellectual disability sued a facility on the grounds of sexual abuse from a male staff member. A judgment was made requiring damages of about 12 million yen against the administrative institution in Shiojiri City with the authority to investigate and supervise the corporation, the prefecture, to held at Matsumoto district court on Thursday.”

by Michael Gillan Peckitt May 17, 2018 Number of comments0
Crime Disability Japan Welfare

Osaka police investigate for negligence as woman in care home dies after being burned whilst bathing

“The social welfare corporation that operates the facility “Japan Helen Keller Foundation” explained that the woman was trying to take a bath and her balance broke down when she put one foot on the bathtub and the other foot went into the bathtub. The temperature was set at 70-80 degrees, the woman was reported to be burned to 60% of the her body.”