An unemployed 19-year-old single mother and two of her girlfriends, aged 19 and 16, have been arrested for child abuse on at least two occasions.
According to police, the mother and her two friends tied her one-year-old son's feet together and scribbled on his face at the mother's apartment in Tokyo's Adachi Ward, Fuji TV reported. On another occasion, they inserted a tube from a stethoscope into the child's nose and mouth.
The incidents occurred last October and November, police said.
Photos of these incidents were then posted on Twitter, police said. One image was seen by a woman who reported it to police.
Police said the mother's smartphone also contained images of her and her friends laughing while they were carrying out the abuse.
Police said the mother admitted posted the photos but denied inserting the tube into her son's nose and mouth. Her two friends have admitted to the charges, saying they did it just for fun, police said.
The mother said she had acquired the stethoscope when she was pregnant so she could listen to her baby's heartbeat.
© Japan Today
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jcapan
Mix a lack of empathy, ignorance, narcissism & "social" media and you get my favorite cocktail: Dystopia
SenseNotSoCommon
If only someone had, we wouldn't be hearing about this.
darknuts
Someone should tie her legs together and scribble on her face.
Fapster
this evil girl needs to be sterilized so this wont happen again.
badman
Let's respond to abuse with more abuse. Great idea!
clamenza
said it before and I'll say it again. I've never seen another country with so many parents who do the most sadistic, evil things to their own children. A completely defenceless baby in this case.
A sad reflection on Japanese society
clamenza
If tying a baby's feet together and forcing a tube into it's mouth and nose is your idea of play, I pray you don't have kids
hakuba
"That is how their cultures teach them to survive. Common sense does provide an obvious answer that fighting violance with violance is insane, if not dumb, but the calls for vigilantism and capital punishments for abusers and criminals are dominating all those forums. You can not expect the society to improve with such bloodthirsty average citizens."
A voice of reason - at last. I have come to the conclusion that most people just don't understand this concept - so violence will continue to prosper.
Dennis Bauer
I think child services should take away the kids "just for fun"
sir_bentley28
I'm at work reading this and i just started crying while reading this. To know the pain, anguish and suffering this baby had to endure by the only person who's job it was to protect him made my heart break. And the fact that she allowed her friends to do it too? These women should have their tubes/ovaries/reproductive systems removed to ensure they would NEVER have children to do this again. Plus a SUPER STRICT 100 yard ban restricting them from ANY children. I'm still crying here and hope no one saw me wiping my tears. That poor baby.
DaDude
and the stupidity continued as she plastered pictures all over social media as if this is a normal thing. Actually her doing this could have saved the child's life and future.
chisineko
This 19 year old who has made her family so very proud needs a name so all in her neighbor hood will recognize her.
Frederic Bastiat
That's all really sick. Obviously has no natural maternal instincts.
Aly Rustom
Someone should tie them all up together and scribble on their faces.
Your own child. You did this to your own child you sick pathetic excuse for slime.
I hope they go to prison where someone will take great delight in torturing them. This is beyond disgusting. I can't even find the words.
Aly Rustom
sir bentley- I hear you loud and clear. As the proud papa of a 1 year and 4 month old child, stories where children or babies are harmed just cut through my heart like a kitchen knife. So I hear you. Let us take comfort in that those three Gorgons are now in police custody.
Daniel Naumoff
That is how their cultures teach them to survive. Common sense does provide an obvious answer that fighting violance with violance is insane, if not dumb, but the calls for vigilantism and capital punishments for abusers and criminals are dominating all those forums. You can not expect the society to improve with such bloodthirsty average citizens.
MsDelicious
Sounds to me like they were playing with the kid, not hurting him.