Police in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, have arrested a 20-year-old man on suspicion of assaulting the four-month-old son of his former girlfriend in June.
Police said Hyo Kiyohara has denied the allegation and quoted him as saying he has no recollection of such an incident, Sankei Shimbun reported.
Kiyohara is accused of grabbing the child's cheeks and shaking his head violently at around 9:50 p.m. on June 7 at his then-girlfriend’s home in Nakama City, Fukuoka Prefecture. He is also accused of throwing the baby several times onto a cushion at around 11:45 p.m. on June 13.
Police said the child was not seriously injured.
The couple broke up in early October. The assault allegations came to light after Kiyohara was arrested for an extortion case involving another woman, prompting officers to interview his former girlfriend. She told police about Kiyohara assaulting her son.
It has also been learned that the baby’s mother possessed video footage of the incidents on her smartphone. But police have not revealed the circumstances of the video recording.
© Japan Today
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falseflagsteve
Scum of the earth. Needs to be kept away from children for life after serving a lengthy stretch.
Gaijinjland
Why do women always get a free pass? 4 month old baby and this guy is not the father. The guy should have some jail time and child welfare services should take the baby until the mother completes a court ordered parenting course. That is what better social services in this country should look like.
Zaphod
The only positive thing in the article is that he is the ****former boyfriend now. I hope she has more common sense from now on.
Jim
After he physically assaulted the 4 month old baby the mother still stayed with him for another 4 months without reporting it to the police! She probably would have stayed with him longer and it seems like he broke up the relationship! These types of cases are far too common in Japan which makes one wonder about the motherly instincts of some Japanese women! They don’t deserve to be mothers!!!! The baby and child deserves much better parents!
Blackstar
@Gaijinjland
Why do women always get a free pass?
So she's guilty of something, according to you? What is that exactly?
Michael Corleone
maybe filming the assaults and selling the child abuse images on the dark web...
follow the money!!
Gaijinjland
Blackstar
I didn’t say she was guilty but it’s pretty black and white. She needlessly put her child’s life in danger by shacking up with a man, who is not even the father of her newborn child, and didn’t bother reporting anything until after her ex was arrested for a separate offense involving another woman.