A one-year-old girl, who was found unconscious in an apartment in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward, has died, police said.
According to police, the child's 13-year-old sister found her unconscious on the kitchen floor when she returned home at around 8 p.m. on Aug 16, Fuji TV reported Friday. She immediately took her sister to the hospital where she was declared dead.
Police said an autopsy showed that the child sustained a traumatic brain injury, most likely from being violently shaken.
Police said the children's mother had gone out that afternoon, leaving the child in the care of her brother (the children's uncle) who lived with her, her two daughters and son.
However, the man has gone missing, and police are searching for him.
© Japan Today
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Disillusioned
So, it's pretty obvious the brother has taken out his frustrations on the kid. There is no love for family in Japan!
Kuribo1
Yikes I wonder where in Edogawa, I mean I live here. I heard sirens around the day wonder if they were related.
zones2surf
@Disillusioned,
There IS love for family in Japan. Perhaps just not in every person in Japan.
In my sadness over the little girl, I was just considering the strength and responsibility of the 13 year old sister who immediately took her little sister to the hospital. What a horrible responsibility. My thoughts with her and her mother and brother.
nath
First candidate for ridiculous comment of the day.
Mirai Hayashi
Poor kid...another victim of a violent incompetent "adult"
gokai_wo_maneku
Sorry for the girl, and the trauma of the 13 year old sister, who will carry that for the rest of her life. I don't want to put into words what I think should happen to the uncle, assuming he is guilty.
gogogo
I hate these stories, worse still he wont get any sort of large punishment for it :(
nakanoguy01
how would you be able to pick the winner, strangerland, since there are so many candidates. some people live in a bubble.
@kuribo this story is 4 days old so...
if the uncle is found to have done this, then he should be executed...slowly and painfully.
sensei258
Strangerland is right
You should have said "There's no love in some families in Japan (and elsewhere)"
Marilita Fabie-Fujisawa
The values for life is going lower and lower
Monozuki
The girl had been able to live only for a little over a year. What a fragile life! RIP little one.
khulifi
Pachinko mother ...!!
DaDude
Strange to see this comment from a vet or was it made to be ironic?
clueless
I dunno...maybe he does have a point. I rarely see a family out together anymore. Dad is working and mum just wants to chillax in front of the TV. Kids do their club activities....no family time.
bruinfan
So sad here.
Wc626
@clueless. Good point. In the US most families are very close. Good lifelong friends are even treated as family. Remembering all the fun 'get togethers' we had and knowing cousins, 2nd cousins just as well as my own siblings.
Never ever see that in japan.