Wakayama care home worker arrested for sexual assault
“A man of a staff at a Wakayama care home was arrested on suspicion of touching the breasts of a woman in her 20s who has intellectual disabilities at a welfare facility in Hashimoto city.”
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Wakayama Prefectural Police arrest a welfare facility employee on suspicion of ‘forced indecency’ of intellectually disabled woman
“Wakayama Prefectural Police at Hashimoto Police Station arrested an employee of a welfare facility for the disabled in the city. The suspect worked at a welfare institution in the same prefecture, and was arrested on suspicion of forced indecently against a woman with intellectual disability at a welfare facility. “
Hyogo Prefecture to introduce a program to help the elderly and disabled who have been charged with a crime
“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. “
Relatives of disabled person in Hyogo Prefecture indicted for keeping family member in a ‘cage’
“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.”
Fukuoka facility for disabled people shut down after incidents of suspected abuse
“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.”
Further details emerge about disabled man kept in ‘cage’ more than 20 years in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
“The father told the city, “since my eldest son’s mental illness is rampant I put him in it 25 years ago.” ”
Hyogo Prefecture man with disabilities kept in tiny cage for over 20 yrs, father arrested
“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.”
Osaka District Court rules woman with intellectual disabilities to be awarded damages for sexual abuse
“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…”
Former worker sentenced to death for killing 3 at Kawasaki nursing home
“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.”
‘I will not burn’: Intellectually disabled person and care home resident on trial for arson
“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…” “
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