Woman arrested for leaving 6-year-old daughter around midnight at 24-hour supermarket

The girl's father came to pick her up soon after, and she was not injured.

At the end that daughter is being picked up right?

No wonder he's been having arguments with her.

Im quite sure her total lack of good judgement and poor decision making was part of the initial argument.

Deadbeat "mother". Hopefully she ultimately loses all custody of the child.

So nobody died, the girl was not physically injured and the non criminally negligent parent picked up the daughter… unless the dad gets custody in the divorce, this is about as happy an ending as we’re likely to see on JT.

No body knows the details here, so, we cannot judge the mother only from this article...

I had an appointment to meet a friend far away and I had called my husband to come pick up our daughter. 

What "friend?" A booty call isn't a "friend."

Tell the "friend" to meet you at your house, since you have a little girl.

I cant believe the people minimizing this...No big deal " eh.

How many kids are taken and molested in Japan. ?

Almost like the sexual abuse of children "is out of control in Japan "

“I had an appointment to meet a friend far away and I had called my husband to come pick up our daughter. We’d been fighting that day and I wasn't sure he would come if I was with her, so I thought it would be alright to leave her at the supermarket until he came.”

Well, that is kind of an argument, but it is unacceptable.

Well, that is kind of an argument

No matter how much the parents fight, the (decent parent) would never allow a spousal conflict to interfere with caring for the young child.

However, if the father is just as bad as the mother, then all bets are off.

And if that's the case, let's hope the child ends up with family members that actually care about her.

Too many couples use their children as weapons in disputes. I often wonder who the real children are.

I don't like it, but better in a local 24hr 'supermarket'? than just walking out of the home and total neglect... Nobody who looked like her parents, kid talk or employee talk. NoWay that we are aware, Som'at wrong, but kiddy ok... for now??

What "friend?" A booty call isn't a "friend."

Thanks for your analysis. Shogun-sama.

I don't like it, but better in a local 24hr 'supermarket'? than just walking out of the home and total neglect... Nobody who looked like her parents, kid talk or employee talk. NoWay that we are aware, Som'at wrong, but kiddy ok... for now??

Your indignation aroused? But silver lining? Good to know.

Well, that is kind of an argument, but it is unacceptable

A statement, an excuse, unacceptable, but an argument: No.

Almost like the sexual abuse of children "is out of control in Japan "

Almost. Or is it? The sexualization of kids, of girls. Been paying attention? It'much worse overseas. Bad enough in Japan, but your comment is uninformed.

We’d been fighting that day and I wasn't sure he would come if I was with her, so I thought it would be alright to leave her at the supermarket until he came.”

Wow okay. So you have one parent petty enough to potentially put the kid in danger just to spite his spouse and another who thinks leaving a six-year-old alone in a public place is a-okay. Jail for the mother and parenting classes for the father with regular visits from social services to ensure the kid is being fed, dressed, and sent to school.

Tell the "friend" to meet you at your house, since you have a little girl.

THIS !!!

a little girl was wandering around the store and no one who looked like her parents was there

THIS !!! What does this mean? Leaving the girl to wander around and wait for her dad was a really bad thing. But there is something else odd about this story. A store employee calls 110 to report that no one who the girl looks like is in the store? This would make more sense if the report said that a store employee asked her where her mother or father was, and when she said she couldn't find them and neither could the store, they called 110, or if there was no one else in the store except the store employees or the girl, so they called 110. But to say that no one looked like the little girl sounds like she had no mother or dad to tell her to stay close and not wander off, or that she may not have been Japanese or that she had three eyes, or something else to indicate that she looks different from other girls. It sounds like something else is missing from this story besides her parents.