19-year-old woman who gave birth in toilet charged with killing infant

They charge her with murder instead of making public places where unwanted children can be given to medical service people, where it will be cared for.

The reason this happens so often, is that in order to get an abortion in Japan, the FATHER has to SIGN a document stating this is o.k. with him....starting to get the idea now ?

I wonder if there are really any social workers in Japan?

These incidents just seem to be on the rise…

Incredibly sad, how ghastly.

Didn’t a Vietnamese woman do this recently? Abandoning her twins? But they only charged her with abandonment of a corpse, right?

Too young to understand, Too young to appreciate life, Too young to be a Mom, and so she did what she could comprehend , I am NOT saying she was right, but if this girl had access to proper help and or health care this baby would have survived and had a life.

Japan wonders why its birth rate keeps dropping - aside from its rapidly aging population you have cases like on the rise. Lack of social support, awareness of what to do in these situations, lack of baby hatches and safe haven laws? are all factors that lead to tragedies like this. And what about abortion? Is it legal in Japan? Easily accessible and affordable? Japan really needs to clean up its act regarding cases like these, of which there have been too many.

Why didn't her mother take her to a hospital to give birth?

Shame and having to rely on other people here is a big no no

@WA4TKG

A father's signature for an abortion is only required for happily married couples.

Obtaining an abortion in Japan is pretty easy and rules are skirted regularly. All a woman needs to do is make a health claim. Previously, Japan had one of the highest rates of abortion in the world. As with the number of children being born, it has dropped significantly down to Finland and Norway levels.

I stand corrected, assuming the information is accurate and up to date.

Baby hatch anyone? Kumamoto established theirs in the mid-2000s almost 20 years ago. Where are the other 46 prefectures with this? The national government?

The govt. could PROACTIVELY do something to reduce this kind of horror instead of arresting people.

@WA4TKG Don't blame the abortion laws.

The mother was fully capable of going to hospital, giving birth, and telling the nurses she didn't want the baby. I'd call your attention to the lack of proper education in schools as the culprit.

If the infant was choked to death, that was malicious intent, which means she planned to kill it. After giving birth at home, she could have instructed a parent to take the baby to the hospital and say it is unwanted.

There are 1000 and 1 options she had. She chose to end a precious life. Women (90%) are more likely to abuse children than men, in Japan. It's a statistic released by the government.

In Japan, you are taught that if you have a child in High school or university, your life is over. This is bullsh!t. Young girls all over the world have babies at under 20, and have perfectly fine lives, continue school and do all sorts of things. And there are so many desperate parents in Japan who cannot conceive. This mother should experience what her child experienced when she is executed.

@MARK Another uneducated statement. Teach students that you have options rather than telling them life is over if you become a teen mom. I know quite a few girls who panicked when they got pregnant at school. I and the other foreign teachers threatened to strike when one girl was to be expelled from school. The principal was really pissed off, but some of the Japanese teachers sided with us. The younger generation of teachers that is. And he had to relent, at the relief of the girl's parents as well. The education system is too old and desperately needs updating.

Contraception is available ... humanity is in the XXI-st century of her existence and still societies are facing this moral issue ...this is a case of maternal filicide /neonaticide ...very sad ...the infant demise could have been prevented ...in the same time ..I am thinking what can be the state of mind of a 19 years old mother ...?

They charge her with murder instead of making public places where unwanted children can be given to medical service people, where it will be cared for.

You mean like the hospitals? Fire houses? baby drop stations? (depending on the prefecture) Police stations? Adoption facilities?