Police in Otaru, Hokkaido, have arrested a woman in her 40s for fatally assaulting her 9-year-old stepdaughter by allegedly punching her in the stomach and kicking her.
According to police, the woman is accused of punching and kicking the girl sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning, Hokkaido Broadcasting Corp reported.
On Friday afternoon, the woman and her husband took the child, who was unconscious and not breathing, to a hospital where she was declared dead. The hospital contacted police.
The woman has admitted to the allegation, police said, adding that an autopsy will be conducted to determine the child’s cause of death.
© Japan Today
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Yohan
If this is really true what I read here....fatally assaulting a 9-year-old child. This is a terrible crime, hopefully the woman who did this is sent to jail for many years.
wallace
Disgusting. The girl needed her love and nurture.
blue in green
Beating a child to death.
Let that sink in.
Single parents, choose your next partner very carefully- your precious children’s lives may depend upon it.
garypen
blue in green
But, it was the actual parent who did this, not the partner. Also, there was nothing in the article stating whether or not her husband was the father. So, she may not have been a single parent when she chose him.
That being said, she may be covering for him. And, he may not be the father. But, we don't know any of that from the article.
iron man
was she not the step-mother, in younger years a bit of corporal punishment was the norm a slap or leather on the buttocks.. but punching and kicking a nine-year-old girl to death, even in the continents of GB may lead to CORPORAL punishments, sickening. Did the neighbours intervene?
iron man
*would have lead
garypen
Did the article always say "stepdaughter"? Doh! I read "daughter" when reading and rereading a number of times. But, now, I finally see "stepdaughter". Brain-eye coordination was a bit off, it seems.
WA4TKG
Let the grandparents cast the first stone