25-year-old woman arrested for attempted murder of 5-year-old son

Wouldn't be a true day in Japan if it passed without a mom killing her kids (or at least trying), or some other family murder, like the 77-year-old man running over his wife today. I am glad that she only ATTEMPTED to kill him and didn't succeed. I mean, what a champion mom, right? throttling someone not much bigger than a toddler and who loves and depends on you.

And how much do you want to bet she gets no time in prison at all, or if she does it'll be far less than, say, a guy scribbling on a shrine pillar?

This is sad in so many ways. I hope she gets help, and her and the son can have a normal relationship.

I'm not so much being sympathetic to her (although obviously she's sick), but it's what's best for the son in the long run.

Now, I think she’ll get the help she needs.

Yeah, woman strangles child = somehow SHE needs help.

Misandrist double standard.

No one has posted about how glad they are that the BOY survived.

Yeah, woman strangles child = somehow SHE needs help.

Misandrist double standard.

We don't know the circumstances that led to this horrible event. Maybe it was fuelled by post partum depression, which can last years after giving birth. Maybe she had mental health issues to begin with and post partum exacerbated it. Or maybe their current living situation is so bleak, she reacted out of desperation and actually tried for murder-suicide.

Perhaps instead of making her the villain, try asking where the father is, and where her family are. We all know Japan likes to pin all the blame on the mother as if she magicked up the kid by immaculate conception. And the kid is 5, so she had him when she was 19/20? Basically still a kid herself and I'd hazard a guess that with the still taboo notion of having a child out of wedlock in Japan, she had little to no support during and after her pregnancy.

Also, awful, tragic events such as this could be minimised and even prevented if Japan actually provided the support and resources for women who find themselves pregnant and alone, and stopped shaming and blaming them for getting pregnant outside of marriage.

And I am glad the kid survived. He's going to live with the trauma of this for the rest of his life but hopefully he'll manage to try to make peace with it, enough to let him live life as normally as he can.

@purple_depressed_bacon

Valid points. But my intention was to point out how society doesn't hold women accountable to the same standard as men who commit such crimes against children.

If the father had done the exact same thing and he truly was mentally disturbed, posters here would NEVER say, "Oh, I hope he gets help".

Perhaps instead of making her the villain, try asking where the father is, and where her family are.

As for the father, maybe he was working to put food on the table for the criminal mother and the traumatized boy.

Funny how people don't seem to ask where was the woman's mother? Folks ALWAYS try to shift the blame to nearest male whenever a female commits a crime.

The boy is now in the custody of the child consultation center.

Don't worry - mom will get another chance when they release her son to her custody in a couple of weeks after determining her to be ok.

WesleyDec. 28 11:58 pm JST

Yeah, woman strangles child = somehow SHE needs help.

> Misandrist double standard.

> No one has posted about how glad they are that the BOY survived

She DOES need help. If you were the father, would you you were guilty and say she doesn't need help? No. You have no substantiating evidence that there was third-party involvement so you can't blame an action like this on anyone but the perpetrator.

Valid points. But my intention was to point out how society doesn't hold women accountable to the same standard as men who commit such crimes against children.

If the father had done the exact same thing and he truly was mentally disturbed, posters here would NEVER say, "Oh, I hope he gets help".

Because more often than not, men that commit crimes against children do so cognizantly and with malicious insidious intent. Men do not experience postpartum depression; men are still let off the hook by society when it comes to their role or lack thereof in their children's lives. Men are not burdened with the same shame and blame as women when a child is created out of wedlock. These factors and more result in why society hold men accountable in a different fashion from women when it comes to committing crimes against children. I'm not saying it's right; but that's the way it goes, and why it's not many people's first instinct to think that the man needs help because he is mentally ill.

Funny how people don't seem to ask where was the woman's mother? Folks ALWAYS try to shift the blame to nearest male whenever a female commits a crime.

Your statement here validates my point somewhat that society places unfair burden and blame on women - why did you write, "where was the woman's MOTHER?" and not "parents"? Why did you not factor in her father into this situation? Why are men constantly being let off the hook for things?