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Vietnamese woman arrested for burying newborn daughter

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Police in Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, said Friday they have arrested a 26-year-old Vietnamese woman on suspicion of abandoning the body of her newborn baby daughter.

According to police, the woman, who works as a technical trainee, has admitted to burying the infant on the grounds of her company’s dorm. The woman told police that the baby was stillborn, Sankei Shimbun reported. She said she panicked and didn’t know what to do, so she buried the baby, with its umbilical cord still attached, late at night on Wednesday.

The woman told another employee what she had done and the employee contacted police who retrieved the infant’s remain on Thursday afternoon.

The woman shares a room in the dorm with another trainee. Police said she gave no information on who the father of the child was.

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To get the visa, her family and village have to pay mafia/corrupt officials.

to have a child, her family has to repay the debt. She will lose her job and be deported.

i have seen many human rights reports on this.

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Everything about this story is just so sad.

20 ( +20 / -0 )

Tragic. Poor woman. No doubt she felt she was unable to get the help she needed in Japan.

11 ( +12 / -1 )

Arresting the woman is not the answer is it?

13 ( +13 / -0 )

Just sad all around. But what good does arresting her do now?

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Just giving the Vietnamese workers an easy path to permanent residency. All problems will resolve themselves in the long run.

Just look at the Vietnamese diaspora in the West after Vietnam War. The US and Western nations provided them an easy path to citizenship. Now, they are most productive and wealthy segments of American/Australian/Canadian minority population.

Too bad that Japanese oyajis still have an irrational fear of foreign bloodmixing.

Better question is who is the father? Maybe 上司 of the company she has her training?

I have done a little bit research on the trainee slavery in Japan. Your assessment is a possibility but most of the Vietnamese crimes are actually inner issues among Vietnamese community in Japan. Most of murder cases, related to Vietnamese in Japan, are involved with anyone of them killing one of their own. Except crimes of economic nature such as theft or underground banking. If it is a crime of assault nature against another victims, then Vietnamese people mostly conduct those crimes against their own kind.

The father is likely a Vietnamese who didn't want to bear the burden. This issue is prevalent among Vietnamese laborers across Japan and South Korea for a while now. There is actually a South Korean movie documenting on such issue but I can't recall the name.

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We'll hear these kind of sad news more and more, there's been a warning about this last year.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/14/national/social-issues/japan-warns-firms-not-fire-pregnant-foreign-trainees-interns-fear-impact-work-status/

Also this thing happened in the past to different nationality but same program, if pregnant simply lost their jobs and visa status, unable to pay their debt.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/22/national/crime-legal/chinese-trainee-japans-technical-intern-program-gets-suspended-prison-term-abandoning-baby/

6 ( +6 / -0 )

Sad in every way.

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Just giving the Vietnamese workers an easy path to permanent residency. All problems will resolve themselves in the long run.

According to crime statistics in Japan,Vietname ranks 1 in comitting crimes here in Japn.From stealing fruits and animals from the farm,to shoplifting.I guess you need more research first and you’re welcome.

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