Police in Fukuoka City have arrested a 52-year-old man for failing to take his 78-year-old mother to a hospital or receive any sort of medical care despite her being bedridden.
According to police, Hirotaka Teshima, a company employee, disregarded the health of his mother, Makiko Teshima, at their home, despite her being unable to eat and being bedridden between late November and the end of December last year, TBS reported.
On Jan 2, Teshima called 110, saying, "I want to complete the procedures for my mother's death."
Police who visited the house found Makiko, whose body was in an emaciated state, lying on her back on a futon. An autopsy revealed that she had been dead for about a week, but the exact cause of death could not be determined.
Police quoted Teshima as saying, "It's true I didn’t provide the necessary care for my mother, but I didn’t take her to a hospital because she refused to go.
© Japan Today
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Newgirlintown
It’s the story that keeps coming back. Seriously, every week there’s an article about an elderly relative whose body has been kept in a house somewhere, usually while the family continues to collect their pension.
Meiyouwenti
In this case, the son didn’t have time to collect his mother’s next pension payment in February this year.
kwatt
He is an adult. He should have asked someone for help.
Michael Machida
Family dynamics are tricky.
I guess?
WoodyLee
Again, and again, and again. the never ending saga of the elderly being abused and kicked in the teeth by the ones they nurtured, loved, and trusted all their lives.
WeiWei
It says she cannot move. How long should we keep them ”alive” in this condition? 20-30 years? It’s better to go and go fast once you cannot take care of yourself. Is it really ”life” being in diapers 24/7 and not knowing anybody or understanding anything?
grc
Michael Machida and WoodyLee - between you, you have it
kaimycahl
What part of this article most here didn’t not understand? Nowhere does it say the son was collecting his mom pension. What I gather the son is respecting his mom wishes “*Police quoted Teshima as saying, "It's true I didn’t provide the necessary care for my mother, but I didn’t take her to a hospital because *she refused to go” He did say he didn’t provide necessary care but for what reasons we do not know