Father pleads guilty to beating 8-year-old son to death

Okada told the court that he got mad at Yushin because he let their pet rabbit out of the house despite promising not to do so.

Because of a rabbit? An 8 year old kid you beat to death for? smh I'm done with all this!

All this over a rabbit? I don't think so... It's been going on for a while... Hope he gets what's coming to him...

Cracaphat, she was propabaly worried she would get pummeled if she interfered.

I'm sure this wasn't the first time the kid got abused. She did nothing about it and is basically an accomplice.

Hitting kids on the head is a cultural thing here but there should be some education on this. It is not good to discipline children this way because you can permanent ly damage or kill your kids.

Spank em on the butt if you really want to hit your kids. There no important organs at that end. Just fat.

Disciplining with any type of violence is not good. I hate the head-smacking tradition in Japan but the article clearly says he had a fractured skull, so these are two completely different things.

Okada told the court that he got mad at Yushin because he let their pet rabbit out of the house despite promising not to do so.

He obviously cared more about his pet rabbit than his son.

Another day in Japan, another couple of family murders.

Unfortunately this stuff will keep happening. Hitting kids on the head is a cultural thing here but there should be some education on this. It is not good to discipline children this way because you can permanent ly damage or kill your kids.

Spank em on the butt if you really want to hit your kids. There no important organs at that end. Just fat.

@ Osaka_Doug - when you spoke about the responsibility of society in this matter, did you mean in the death of the child, or the punishment of the father?

That is very true and we will never know why she didn't do it. Most will accuse the father of terrorizing her, but she might have banished him to his room without checking on him.

Of course she could have killed the boy and the father is protecting her. That is possible also.

Unlike the crowd who Always pipes in "Where was the father?" when a woman murders her child or children, I'm not going to do that, especially since it says she was at home at the time. I'm also not going to blame PPD 9 years after the fact, obviously him being a man (but still equally ridiculous when people do so for women well after). What I am going to ask is why on earth are they not charging the mother for doing absolutely Nothing while being there? It's not like this is irregular, either.

In any case, I hope the guy rots in prison for a life sentence (knowing Japan, it'll be maybe 2 years, although they're a lot more lenient on mothers). What a horrible thing to do, and I feel so sorry for hte poor kid. Perhaps Okada can think about the fact that "Maybe I shouldn't have calmed down before acting" for quite a while behind bars. Far too many people here snap and never think of the conséquences.

The problem is,Japan's Health a7 Welfare system has not seriously addressed child abuse.

Even when cases are reported- there is very little that happens.

Likely for Yushin, this was not the first time he was beaten.

Unfortunately he won't get the death penalty, which is what he deserves. Because it's a family matter he may even avoid jail time

So, using your logic, if the child deserved being beaten to death for letting the rabbit run off, then the punishment you deserve for taking an innocent life is...

Yushin because he let their pet rabbit out of the house despite promising not to do so

He beat his son to death over a flipping pet rabbit? There’s no doubt in my mind that he had been beating the kid for many years. What a tragic POS he is.

Cracaphat, she was propabaly worried she would get pummeled if she interfered.

a real man beating a defenseless child...

Heartbreaking. Poor boy.