Woman, boyfriend arrested after her 5-year-old daughter dies from hypothermia

Death penalty. For both.

Its the only just punishment.

Police said doctors told them that Nono had several bruises on her body, leading police to believe that she may have been subjected to physical abuse multiple times. 

...last September, police received a call from a relative of Sekikawa saying that he and Miyamoto were constantly arguing over raising the two children.

Police notified the Hachinohe Child Welfare Center that the two children might be in danger of being abused. An employee of the welfare center visited the apartment on Oct 31 and spoke with Miyamoto, Sekikawa and saw Nono, but saw no signs that she was being abused.

So, those monsters suddenly started abusing her enough to cause multiple bruises after Oct 31? Uh huh. Or, the welfare employee simply didn't properly examine her at that time. They probably just looked around the apt, and asked a few questions.

At least the police contacted the appropriate agency, for a change.

Unless both these animals can prove they are mentally retarded or challenged, they need to be hung. No excuses. Everyone can assume putting a child in a freezing cold child for over 4 hours - in winter in one of Japans coldest areas - will end badly.

The day this woman hangs will be a beautiful day. Not a single tear would be shed.

Rest in Peace to poor little Nono-chan. You deserved a loving family.

Only two murders of children reported to far today... slow day, I guess. Hope these people, like the couple who poisoned their daughter, get life in prison, and in prison, I hope they are abused for life.

Yet another case of a child murdered by the mother's new man. Women, wake up. There are a huge number of Japanese "manchilds " who resent your "leftover" children. Keep looking, these are not the guys you are looking for.

Police notified the Hachinohe Child Welfare Center that the two children might be in danger of being abused. An employee of the welfare center visited the apartment on Oct 31 and spoke with Miyamoto, Sekikawa and saw Nono, but saw no signs that she was being abused.

Another absolute failure from our well paid civil servants whose ONLY JOB is to protect children. Do these civil servants EVER error on the side of caution???

I agree with Stan on this one. Furthermore, why do courts not permit dual custody but let a child live with an unknown boyfriend scoundrel? This happens too much.

How exactly do an UNEMPLOYED man and an UNEMPLOYED woman afford to live in an apartment with 2 small children?

Did the welfare people not think to bring this up during the check??

Police notified the Hachinohe Child Welfare Center that the two children might be in danger of being abused. An employee of the welfare center visited the apartment on Oct 31 and spoke with Miyamoto, Sekikawa and saw Nono, but saw no signs that she was being abused.

This often seems to be the case in Japan, isn't it? Are these welfare workers even trained and qualified to do their jobs because they so very frequently fail at it. Now another one of their charges has died. They should be held accountable for this little girl's death too.

Here we go again.

Miyamoto also has a one-year-old son who was not harmed, police said.

Just you wait. He is next on the line if those useless childcare center workers and useless police workers dont actually DO something.

a 21-year-old unemployed woman and her 31-year-old unemployed boyfriend

In the first place, is it even okay to let two unemployed parents to take care of small children? It should be illegal, children should be taken into care and parents interviewed by authorities.

Meanwhile, local media reported Thursday that last September, police received a call from a relative of Sekikawa saying that he and Miyamoto were constantly arguing over raising the two children.

So why do you produce more children if you know you can't take care of them? Well, I think they both already lost touch with the reality so its more of a rhetorical question.

Police notified the Hachinohe Child Welfare Center that the two children might be in danger of being abused. An employee of the welfare center visited the apartment on Oct 31 and spoke with Miyamoto, Sekikawa and saw Nono, but saw no signs that she was being abused.

What an amazing system to protect children! Police notified. Welfare center workers visited. Oh, do you abuse your child? No, we don't. Look, the child is just fine because we have prepared for your visit so everything seems just fine but since you don't really care and your work is just about formality and not looking past the surface I guess we will continue to abuse our children until they die.

What it needs for a child to be abused and killed: police to notify and welfare center workers to pay a visit.

This often seems to be the case in Japan, isn't it? Are these welfare workers even trained and qualified to do their jobs because they so very frequently fail at it. Now another one of their charges has died. They should be held accountable for this little girl's death too.

Indeed. The problem here is in a society that seem to lack initiative and drive to save those in need the only thing that could protect children is law, strict law and strict punishments and penalties for police workers and child welfafe center workers. I promise you if the director od that center was fired and those police workers were penalized or cut on some bonuses they usually get they'd be more proactive!

Instead of focusing solely on punishment, let’s try to understand the circumstances that led to these tragic events. What factors in the individual’s life and environment might have contributed to this outcome?

You can keep the touchy-feely sentiments for yourself.

They need to swing.

Instead of focusing solely on punishment, let’s try to understand the circumstances that led to these tragic events. What factors in the individual’s life and environment might have contributed to this outcome?

Its too late to analyze that. A child was abused and tortured and killed.

A small hint to you: there are not only external factors that shape the person, but also internal and I will bet they are more important.

Instead of focusing solely on punishment, let’s try to understand the circumstances that led to these tragic events. What factors in the individual’s life and environment might have contributed to this outcome?

Is that a part of traditional Japanese sentiment that lets children be killed?

I want to say this is a problem unique to Japan but it’s not. There is the American woman in the UK now awaiting extradition for killing her two children in the US around Christmas because of a custody dispute with her ex. Mental illness + children = varying degrees of tragedy anywhere in the world.

on Thursday arrested a 21-year-old unemployed woman and her 31-year-old unemployed boyfriend on suspicion of fatally abusing the woman's five-year-old daughter, causing her to die from hypothermia.

Poor excuse for parents. Both unemployed. Poor parenting excuse.

How exactly do an UNEMPLOYED man and an UNEMPLOYED woman afford to live in an apartment with 2 small children?

Did the welfare people not think to bring this up during the check??

They can afford it because they stay officially unmarried, and both collect separate welfare checks. Common practice with these unemployed types. They even have money to play pachinko and eat yakiniku regularly.

Why Not Give Child For Adoption Instead Of Torturing N Killing Children

I thought I was against the death penalty…..having read this I’m not so sure, I might even volunteer to pull the trap door myself.

How exactly do an UNEMPLOYED man and an UNEMPLOYED woman afford to live in an apartment with 2 small children?

As therougou pointed out, welfare. A single individual can get about 120,000. With kids, I'm guessing another 30,000 per kid. Two adults and two kids and they're looking at 300K - certainly a livable amount. Still, there are restrictions on how much can be spent on rent, but there are ways around that.

And now society get to continue paying for them!

Vulnerable mother, parasitic boyfriend and a situation therougou describes above. Both of them must have cooperated in abusing the poor child. Horrific story. I wonder how much of this goes on undiscovered?

Scumbag couple..

Gallows ASAP

Yeaaaah, you have agencies that are supposed to protect children from abusive adults. Sounds like they received fair warning from people in the know that the kids were being abused, and didn't investigate properly, so this is really on them. I'm guessing that's probably not the first time that little girl had to stand in a cold shower in freezing cold Aomori, either.

Being tortured to death by your parents is a terrible way for a child to die.

Look like those kind of incidents are becoming weekly news in Japan...

I agree with the people that said they should hang, no excuses from them to be honest.

However, as another poster said, this seems to be a big problem in Japan, and would be interesting to see what is the root causes of all those horrid child murders.

Is it lack of parenting love? Too much introvertism? The garbage culture of double-facing, which is actually promoted here, leading to the most fake people on the planet? How is this related you ask? Well, imagine the Familly being very happy in public and showing no problems, while at home the parents transform into monsters...

There is more to talk about the root causes of all this...

GaijinjlandFeb. 16  08:24 pm JST

I want to say this is a problem unique to Japan but it’s not. There is the American woman in the UK now awaiting extradition for killing her two children in the US around Christmas because of a custody dispute with her ex. Mental illness + children = varying degrees of tragedy anywhere in the world.

You're only addressing one part of the problem in Japan; the parents. The other is the incompetence and impotence of supposed social workers who seem to have no appropriate academic background, experience, or training. There always a few that fall through the cracks but the level of professionalism in western countries is far higher than in Japan where it's just about going through the motions.

These 2 horrific animals forced little Nono to stand in a cold shower for 4 hours until she died, I cannot even imagine what she went through during that time, yet these 2 animals could have stopped it at any time but chose not to. They will not get the death penalty but hopefully 30+yrs in prison. As for the so-called welfare workers, what exactly do they do, apart from nothing, yet I bet they still have their well paid jobs.

SometimesI feel that this life is hell from the mistakes we made before.

Honestly it seems like a red flag that the kids gonna die if the child welfare people appear. A common thread in these tragedies seems to be them not acting after getting called

They must be both mentally unstable to think leaving a kid in the shower for 4 hours let alone cold shower in the winter would be a good idea in any situation...

Death would be too good for them let them suffer in the same way they did to the child over and over again.

I tried to look up this article in Japanese and what did i find? In ynews they had deleted it and other news outlets also deleted it from their sites. Why are they trying to hide this type of news? I find it strange that top Japanese news outlets tend to not report this kind of news and even seem to go out of their way to hide it