Police in Sapporo have arrested a 25-year-old man on suspicion of assaulting his girlfriend’s elementary school-age daughter by hitting her and throwing her violently onto a bed.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 8:20 p.m. on Saturday. Hokkaido Broadcasting Corp reported that the man, a temp worker from Tomakomai City in Hokkaido, lives at his girlfriend’s apartment in Sapporo’s Nishi Ward.
After the man assaulted the child, who is under the age of 10, her mother called police. Police said the man has admitted to the charge and quoted him as saying he lost his temper because the girl wouldn’t listen to him, preventing the three of them from going out.
© Japan Today
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kurisupisu
When kids don’t listen then assault is not the way to go…
Yubaru
Soon to be unemployed I am sure!
TokyoJoe
Discipline is important for kids, when I was naughty I was spanked. We now have a whole generation of useless, self entitled human beings that were raised with no discipline.
Mark
Get this DOG out of the apartment ASAP, I am sure this is not his first.
Michael Machida
"Man arrested for assaulting girlfriend’s daughter because 'she wouldn’t listen to him..."
Well, now in jail many men will want to listen to him.
Aly Rustom
Good on the mother for calling the police on this scumbag. So many times we hear that the mother was aware of the abuse and did nothing, but not here. She prioritized her daughter and did the right thing. Hopefully this SOB will be manhandled in prison.
Cards fan
Yeah, I don't think anyone would disagree that discipline is important, but hitting a kid and then throwing them onto a bed isn't discipline, it's child abuse.
shogun36
im sure that’s not the first woman/girl to do such.
no one is paying any attention to this moron.
what a winner this loser sounds like. A temp living in his girlfriend’s apartment?
get a job, fool. You want respect, earn it.
Laguna
Corporal punishment runs through generations. I was never hit by my parents - I never hit my kids. My wife was - she (rarely, not often) did.
When my kids did something bad, I would kneel with them in the genkan, have them recount what they did and why it was bad and come up with ways to prevent reoccurrence. That was far more effective than corporal punishment: they felt shame yet felt my love and came out the better for it.
Toshihiro
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Same with people, you can call them out with all of the vocabulary that you have but if they don't want to listen, leave them be.
4Tno
Never let another man take care of your own or else those poor kids will have a high chance of experiencing physical or mental abuse. This has nothing to do with corporal punishment. The real problem here is child neglect due to the lack of the father. If you make a baby, make sure to care for that precious being.
commanteer
Japanese prisons are bad, but at least they are not hell-holes where gangs run rampant and inflict violence upon the weak. It's inconsistent to be opposed to violence in one case but advocate for it in another. Sure, he deserves punishment and the girl deserves to be protected, but promoting barbarism is just continuing the cycle of violence. He should be punished according to the law, not according to vigilantes.
Eastman
what a "man"....
kaimycahl
We don’t live in their house hold! Who knows what could have happened we are just reading half the story
2020hindsights
TokyoJoe
Discipline isn't conveyed with anger. This isn't a case of discipline; it's the lack of it in the boyfriend.