Police in Yokohama have arrested a 43-year-old woman on suspicion of killing her 5-year-old daughter and attempting to kill her 11-year-old son at their home on Wednesday.
According to police, at around 8:30 p.m., the woman’s husband came home from work and found the two children collapsed, NTV reported. He called 110 and said his wife had killed their two children.
When police arrived, they found the boy, a fifth-grader in elementary school, collapsed in a room on the second floor, and his sister collapsed in another room on the same floor.
The two were taken to a hospital, but the girl was confirmed dead just after 10 p.m. The boy is in a critical condition.
Police said the mother, Ai Kamiju, has admitted to the allegation but has so far given no motive.
Police said she attempted to kill her son by strangling him in some way, and killed her daughter by drowning her in the bathtub.
The house, in Kohoku Ward, is home to six people, including the parents, both in their 40s, and the grandparents, both in their 70s.
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Yohan
This woman belongs to a secure mental ward, a mother doing something like that cannot be a normal person, something is wrong within her brain.
DanteKH
How can a mother even harm their own children is beyond my understanding.
I also have kids, and I love them more that I could ever love or care for myself. I could die for them in an instant, without even an hesitation or 2nd thought.
What this monster did deservers capital punishment in my opinion. The moment she hurt her own flesh and blood, she completelly lost of of her humanity and human rights no longer should apply to her.
Outrageous.
Michael Corleone
let's hope he pulls through
Haaa Nemui
Should that be Kohoku ward, not Kohaku ward?
Moderator: Thanks for pointing that out.
smithinjapan
Another day, another family murder here. How many times this year alone have we read about a husband coming home to find his kids (and possibly wife... she often fails to off herself) dead in particular? Hope this mom is locked up for the rest of her life, with pics of her little ones as smiling babies always within sight, but out of reach.
kaimycahl
Wow the mother is mentally ill she killed her daughter by drowning her in the bathtub. She made one mistake she failed at killing herself now she will replay that day over and over in her head. SMH!
Abe234
It doesn't take long for someone to advocate for the death penalty, does it? And you don't know anything about the case at all. Just because you're perfect doesn't mean everyone else has to.
Some people have psychiatric problems and your answer is to string them up. I think a father in the USA has been on death row, for shaken baby syndrome and the father has autism, and everyone inferred his autism traits as guilty traits. Now it looks as though (along with the police) the guy is innocent. Furthermore, no woman has ever received the death penalty for such a crime.
We need to take a step back instead of jumping to conclusions.
carpslidy
They aren't enough kids in Japan as it is
The local governments need to be vigilant
I'm sure there were signs beforehand
PTownsend
well said.
Keepitreal
@smith maybe want to read some foreign news this happens all over the globe.