A former nursing home employee has been sentenced to eight years in prison for fatally assaulting a female resident at the facility in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture.
According to the ruling by the Saitama District Court, Takahiro Oyoshi, 30, was arrested after it was discovered that in 2010, while working at the Flower Hill nursing home in Kasukabe, he had repeatedly hit a newly-admitted 95-year-old woman countless times in the chest and other areas, TV Asahi reported. The elderly woman eventually died from the physical abuse.
In handing down the sentence, the presiding judge said that Oyoshi's victim was completely powerless to resist her attacker's blows. The judge told Oyoshi that as a caregiver, it was his job to protect and care for the residents of Flower Hill.
Prosecutors had sought a 10-year prison term.
© Japan Today
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Mirai Hayashi
Only 8 years for murdering an elderly woman...incredible
CrazyJoe
As of 2012, there were a little over 835,000 residents in nursing homes throughout Japan. But for many physical abuse is a hideous inescapable reality. Many are denied the right to make personal choices such as what and when to eat, when to wake up and go to sleep and what to wear and also denied the right to complain and seek redress of problems. For the nursing home, it becomes a question of increasing its liability by allowing patients to do as they please or jeopardizing its licensure by denying the patients their opportunity to exercise their rights. Only eight years for fatally assaulting a resident?
khulifi
8 years is very little for murder ... !!!
Abhorsenaube
Why didn't he get the full 10?! The man is pathetic to attack a defenseless elderly lady and when he was in a position to help her as his job? disgraceful.
Ms. Alexander
It's really shocking how the justice system's view of human life is so little.
Poor woman. Lived to 95 only to be fatally abused :(
ironbutterfly98
Shoouuld be 95 years, Treat her like your grandmother, if you don't have respect for the elders don't work there go get a job
FightingViking
and some people get only 3 years for killing their own child...
Bartholomew Harte
A slap in the face to All! Elder abuse is all too often shut into a closet as far as authorities are concerned& giving this creep a GIFT of 8 years in jail is Outragous!
tmarie
Eight years for an old woman, three years for a child... does the Japanese government not value life?
majikayo!
Exceptionally weak sentence, what a joke
Kapuna
Why is Japan so lenient with those who take the life of another?
timtak
Apparently he was the person that found 3 or 4 aged people dead in the space of four days and did it because "i was irriated" and because "I wanted to be praised and positively evaluated by my peers as being the person to have found the deceased." Japanese http://fujikko92.exblog.jp/20539827
sensei258
8 years for murdering a 95 year old woman, and 3 years for murdering a six year old girl. Less with time served and good behavior. There is something seriously wrong with the justice system in Japan when a perfect conviction rate is more important than justice and protecting people.
rickyvee
8 years is a pathetic sentence for his actions, but manslaughter and murder are not equivalent. this is an important distinction when analyizing an act that causes another's death.
jounetsuyume
what on earth does someone have to do to get life?
kaimycahl
Let me have at him! He would gladly trade places with the elderly woman, send him to the states he wouldn't last one day in his cell that's a cardinal sin!
Rosey
Let him be admitted to a nursing home.... I am sure there would be someone there to teach him the finer art of chest thumping.
TheInterstat
My girlfriend works there!!!!!! I swear to god.