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.”
Category: Intellectual disabilities
Railway company in Japan produces educational posters to aid understanding of people with intellectual disabilities
The Sanyo Electric Railway has produced a series of posters to raise awareness of the behaviour of people with intellectual disabilities in stations and on trains.
People with mental illness and intellectual disabilities in Japan to be given vaccine priority
Regarding the vaccination of the new coronavirus, an expert group of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare approved on the 18th that people with severe mental illness or intellectual disability will be included in the priority vaccination.
“Someone stop me”: Mother with an intellectual disability on trial for murder of her daughter
Prosecutors acknowledged that the woman was of diminished capacity due to parenting burdens as well as her disability, and requested a 5-year prison sentence. The defense called for a suspended sentence, and the trial concluded.
Group home for intellectually disabled in Amami City destroyed by fire
A fire broke out in Amami City, Kagoshima Prefecture on the night of the 14th, and one group home was completely destroyed. At the time of the fire, there were six men with intellectual disabilities in their 50s and 60s who moved into the facility, but all of them escaped safely under the guidance of the facility staff.
Man in Tokyo arrested for committing an obscene act against boy with intellectual disabilities in a public toilet
A man (43) is suspected of committing an obscene act against a teenage boy with intellectual disabilities in a public toilet in a park in Suginami Ward, Tokyo.
Child abandonment court case highlights need for sex education for people with disabilities in Japan
A woman with a mild intellectual disability on trial for the charge of abandoning a dead baby that she gave birth to in a pit latrine has brought into question how much sex education and support people with disabilities receive.
Nagasaki man sentenced for multiple counts of assault against women with intellectual disabilities
A man accused of indecency, violation of prefectural nuisance prevention ordinances and invasion of a residence, for alleged repeated indecent actions such as showing his naked and touching the body against multiple women with intellectual disabilities was sentenced on July 17th.
17-year-old boy with intellectual disabilities arrested for robbery after escaping Osaka welfare facility with knife
A boy (17) with intellectual disabilities who attends a special needs school at a support facility for people with disabilities in Tomitabayashi City, Osaka, who used a cutter knife to threaten staff and steal their keys and escape was arrested in the afternnon of 6th July.
Fukuoka Prefectural Police arrest man who ‘instructed’ intellectually disabled man to aid him in thefts
On July 8th, the Fukuoka Prefectural Police Department arrested a man, aged 27 on suspicion of stealing, saying that he had shoplifted using an acquaintance who had intellectual disabilities.
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