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An 82-year-old man has been arrested in Kushiro City, Hokkaido, on suspicion of killing his 80-year-old wife, police said Wednesday.
The suspect, Tadashi Morishita, is accused of beating his wife Chiyo in the face multiple times at their home on Monday, Fuji TV reported. Police said Morishita beat his wife from morning to night.
The couple’s 49-year-old son returned home at around 10:30 p.m. and called 119. Chiyo, who suffered severe injuries from the beating, was taken to a hospital where she died shortly after arrival. Police said she had bruises on her face and the upper half of her body.
The son told police everything seemed normal between his parents when he left for work at around 9 a.m. that morning.
Morishita was quoted by police as saying, “While I did hit my wife in the face, I had no intention of killing her.”
© Japan Today
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Do the hustle
Oh, so that makes it ok then. it’s totally acceptable for a man to beat his wife consistently over a period of 12 hours or so until she becomes unconscious. After all, that’s what marriage is all about. It’s not about being partners and sharing a life. It’s about determining who is the strongest and can dish out the most severe beatings. It was a perfect marriage until he killed her.
thepersoniamnow
Do the hustle
“It was a perfect marriage till he killed her!”
Dude... refrain when you have nothing to say. May this poor lady RIP, what an evil man and what a horrible brutal way to die.
Michael Machida
This is bad.
Michael Jackson
I wonder if they'll give him a suspended sentence just because he's old
sir_bentley28
My heart HURTS for this woman. Who knows how long or for how many years she had to endure such terrible abuse, but she was still strong enough to hide her pain and suffering from her son until the very end. I feel like crying for her because I've seen many cases like this and when I see the victims, or what's left of them, I think of them in a better place.
As for this...........abuser.........age should NOT exempt him from the harshest punishment for what he has done.
Halwick
Article doesn't say why he beat his wife. Something must have caused him to snap like that. Maybe she didn't prepare his meals, or she threw out his sake, cigarettes, magazines or whatever. I've seen elderly men overreacting to such petty or insignificant causes. The sad part is that at that age, they don't realize how far over they overreacted. And by then it's too late, as in this case.
At 82, I'm sure there will be a mental evaluation and Mr. Morishita will probably be diagnosed with dementia, Alzheimer's or some other age-related mental disorder. Physical aggression among people with dementia is not unusual. A study from Lund University in Sweden showed that one-third of patients with the diagnosis Alzheimer's disease or frontotemporal dementia were physically aggressive towards healthcare staff, other patients, relatives, animals and complete strangers.