A 22-year-old unemployed woman who was arrested last month on suspicion of abandoning the body of her newborn baby daughter at her home in Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture, has said she became pessimistic about her and the baby's future and that she didn't know what to do after the baby was born.
Police said Moeka Okada was rearrested Monday on suspicion of murder, Kyodo News reported. According to the police, after giving birth, Okada placed wrapped the infant in a towel, and placed her in a suitcase in a closet in her room. The corpse was found at around 11:20 a.m. on June 8 by Okada’s mother who called 119.
Police said the parents told them they had not seen their daughter since June 3. They said they had been away from home and had only been in email contact with her but that they didn’t know where she was.
Police arrested Okada after locating her at the home of a male acquaintance in Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture, on June 9.
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Jorgey Georgios
dark side of Japan
Jonathan Prin
We know nothing about her real life.
Many single women just live a material life, without any care in the world outside having fun (prostitution is not a limited issue in Japan).
Morning pills or just birth control pills or IUD are also expansive and hard to get so no wonder such things happen.
Jind
Sadly, I feel for the woman and the baby.
At 22 years young and nowhere to go.
There should be some Help Centers for people feeling totally out of luck and no light at the end of the tunnel.
RIP the baby.
opheliajadefeldt
This poor young woman was placed in an awful position, a newly born child with no help from the father, unable to confide in her parents and with Zero future. As a young female of 24yrs old, I woud feel only desperate futility in a similar situation, but I woud not go to the lengths she did, but then, I do not live in Japan, and have wonderful caring parents.
JDoe
What about the 'father'??????
kurisupisu
Several generations ago , a child born out of wedlock wouldn’t have been much of a problem.
Now, with most Japanese living in small apartments, another person to place somewhere is a problem.
Add the cost of living into the equation and this is what can happen…
finally rich
Only after becoming a father myself I realized there is absolutely no fate worse to a human being than being born and raised without a father. A million bad things are prone to happen in fatherless homes, from crime to drug abuse, incarceration, no motivation or guidance at all, an entire unregulated life of pain without even knowing what's good or bad, a life where very few manage to escape as statistics dont lie.
In worst scenarios, you're murdered before even having a chance in life. RIP.
Bad Haircut
Japanese governments the national, prefectural and local levels need to do a much better job of publicising the availability of adoption services. There are loads of couples who can't have kids of their own lining up to adopt a child, with demand far exceeding supply. That would go a long way to alleviating the tragedy of cases like this.
Negative Nancy
Awful for everyone involved. That poor girl, that poor child! To be in a position of such extreme fear, to not feel like she could not reach out to anyone, including her parents, the male partner, or even the medical services- she must have been in a terrible, frightening place.
Then the girl's mother- whatever flaws she may or may not have had as parent- that discovery of a dead baby (her grandchild!) and then having to pick up the phone to call the police on her own child is a real-life nightmare scenario.
What a sad story. It's so extreme that certain posters forget that this article is about real people in the most awful of situations.
bass4funk
A large portion for sure.
GuruMick
The story is about a needless, senseless death of a baby.
It' not an opportunity for posters to take cheap shots at each other.
Have people lost their humanity ?
Gaijinjland
@/dev/random
Sounds like @sakurasuki has been here a long long time. Their sentiments are depressing but completely true.
sakurasuki
Sounds like majority of Japanese people.