Mother gets 10 years for fatal child abuse of 6-year-old daughter

Only 10 years? but at least at 46 when she comes out, her chance of becoming a "mother" again will be gone.

I doubt it very much if she will serve a full ten years in prison. If she shows a bit of remorse and serves as a model prisoner, then it’s likely she’ll be released in 5 or 6 years, before her biological clock stops ticking.

Good. Shows the system works.

Awful. As the father of a 6 year old girl myself I find this horrible. 10 years is nothing. They abused a small defenseless child to death. She was her mother. She should have gotten life.

What a sad story! May the soul of the kid rest in eternal peace.

Not to mention the scum she was dating and mainly responsible for this girl's death only got 14 years. What a joke of a justice system

Despicable maggot - certainly not a mother.

I hope she dies while inside. She should also be forcibly sterilised.

Rest in Peace to poor little Mao. Outrageous that her precious life was only worth a punishment of 10 years.

Both sentences are way to short for the murder of a child!

Only 10 years?!?

I hope someone shanks her in the throat in prison.

My heart is bleeding imagining the suffering of the abused child as I have my own that I love so much.

According to the ruling, Nishida, in collusion with Funahashi, made Mao stand naked in a pot for an extended period of time and forced her to vomit by putting her hands and fingers in her mouth in September 2021.

They also rolled Mao up in a Japanese-style futon mattress and shoved her in the closet for some 70 minutes. She died of anoxic brain injury in January 2022.

14 years and 10 years for murdering your child. Japan should be ashamed of this legal status quo. I can only imagine the terror this little 6 year old girl felt. RIP to her and a big shame-on-you to the legal system here.

I can't read it. I just want to vomit.

I remember the story. The child actually confided about this at school, with the promise that this would be confidential. Then the father made a scene, and the officials showed the the "confidential" letter the child had written. And then he took revenge on the child, resulting in this.

Totally disgusting behaviour by the school officials.

Once I saw the bit about forcing the child to vomit, I had to stop reading. These to people are monsters and deserve more that what they got. They would have been given much longer sentences if they had done this to another adult. I just can comprehend how sentences are so light for the abuse and murder of a defenseless child.

It’s absolutely heartbreaking what this poor little girl had to go through in her short life. I really struggle not to cry when I read stuff like this.

Japan must be the only country in the world where you can abuse a child and also resulting in death where you do not have to do the time.

So ridiculous low sentences in Japan for such hideous crimes.

story should be titled:

Mother gets 10 years for fatal child abuse of 6-year-old daughter, out in 5!

Shows the system works.

As in it handed them some form of punishment, then yes. Would you say their punishments are adequate for the severity of their crimes? I would have thought torturing a child to death would have gotten them more years at least.

10 years? What a joke. Make it at least 40 years.

That's an impossible question to answer. Given that lex talionis is not always practicable nor even desirable, the punishment will always have to be decided by someone navigating between the different formulations of retributive desert on one hand and imposing vindictive, cruel suffering on the other. Arguably no punishment can really be "adequate" and punishments can only ever be reasonable approximations.

Fair enough, though I have to clarify I’m not advocating “an eye for an eye” (putting these two through the same ordeal until death happens). Ten and fourteen years seem light to me for this crime, but that’s just what I feel and not according to what Japanese law decrees.

Nishida's defense team appealed the ruling immediately. Her boyfriend Seiji Funahashi, 41, has already been sentenced to 14 years in prison in a separate trial.

This is also not enough. 14 years for torturing a 6 year old to death seems way too lenient.

Sorry, I can't believe in a prison sentence less than life.

Killing and torturing a child, and particularly the one you are responsible for, is contrary to life itself.

Those two will continue when freed to pose a serious life threat anytime when with any children that would come under their custody for any reason ! (Some jobs, in the park where kids games...)

She wasn’t sentenced for murder. That’s why 10 years. Not sure what the sentencing in western countries for a similar case would be. Does anyone know?

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That's an impossible question to answer.

Not really difficult. A suitable punishment would be to stand her in a pot naked, force her to vomit and then roll her up in a futon and put her in a closet until she died. All the while asking her if she had learnt her lesson.

Should be 6 x 10 years.

Even that would be too little.

For punishment for these types of crimes, should be "do unto the criminal what they did to their victim,ten times at lest." Then lock them in some dark hole till they die.

That is the most easy punishment that comes to my mind for such criminals.

I have thought of worse, but my posting would be removed if i typed them and maybe be banned.

Totally disgusting behaviour by the school officials.

Or maybe a law that needs changing. The school's main interest here is not getting into legal trouble. If the law tells them they have to risk the kid's security in favor of some other interest (such as "parental rights"), well that's what they are going to do.