The body of a newborn baby girl was found at a garbage collection point in Hanyu, Saitama Prefecture, on Sunday.
A phone call was made to police at around 9 a.m. on Sunday reporting that there was a dead body in a white plastic bag at a garbage collection point in a housing complex, Fuji TV reported.
Police said the umbilical cord was still attached to the infant which must have been placed at the site sometime after the garbage was last picked up on Saturday afternoon.
© Japan Today
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Disillusioned
"Take the trash out honey!"
Disgusting!
zones2surf
No words, just no words.
Aly Rustom
zones, I'm with you. No words. Just tears.
LFRAgain
It's highly unlikely that this is the way this tragedy transpired.
Peace Out
Its sad that any pregnant female feels she can get no help and is probably correct. Things happen, and where understanding is needed, its usually most easy to find condemnation. And then stuff like this happens and people ask why.
Disillusioned
Yes, that's right! It's quite normal to leave a dead newborn baby in a plastic shopping bag by the trash, isn't it? There was no attempt made to conceal the body or its death. It was just dumped by the trash like last night's dinner scraps! It's absolutely disgusting!
Utrack
RIP Little one
TheGodfather
"newborn baby girl", "garbage collection point", "phone call", "the garbage was... picked up"
What's the problem? That sounds like the world-famous Japanese efficiency to me... ;-)
smithinjapan
Get the baby-hatches in full swing, please. In the mean time, while of course the infant's body could have been left there by a passing car and could be from anywhere, police should check the bag for other contents that could lead to identification (a lot of people here who pollute or leave their trash out on random days for the crows and cats to rip through often leave envelopes or junk mail with their name and address on it in the trash. My land-lady got sick of this one time and put the person's garbage in front of their door after cleaning up the street and rebagging it, with photos of the trash covered street and a note attached), as well as checking the neighbourhood to see if anyone knew of a pregnant woman in the immediate area.
sensei258
I should think so, unless you can give me a scenario where doing that would be acceptable.
A complete disregard for human life in it's most vulnerable form. Probably just thought of it as birth control. May she be haunted by her daughter forever.
Mirai Hayashi
Why?????
Marilita Fabie-Fujisawa
My only wish is this thing not to happen anymore, but if it does so, I wish it happens right before my eyes, I'd like to have to be able to care for one unconditionally and make it my own.,
Peace Out
@sensei258 Obviously I was talking about being pregnant under less than perfect circumstances, not dumping the body in the trash. I mean OBVIOUSLY, sensei, do you read much? Or do you just like twisting people's words so you can imagine you made a point?
sensei258
You know, if you'd stopped there I'd have apologized, since I was upset while reading this story and made a mistake. But you had to cross the line and toss in a personal attack/insult, which was completely unnecessary and inappropriate. I'm surprised the moderators didn't delete your comment.
Peace Out
100 times better than an apology is a simple admission of error. Thank you!
I have been subject to too many misinterpretations to be nice about it at this point. Sorry about that.
But I will add that there is room in my heart for understanding of even this act of disposing of the body in the trash, pending details of what led to that act. Society is most unkind. But society will never see the blood that may well be on its own hands in this case.
frontandcentre
How terrible, that anyone could be so desperate as to do this... poor little child.