Woman, father held on suspicion of burning baby's body in park

I can't count the number of times I have heard stories like this, in which a young girl gives birth at home, and her family were not even aware she was pregnant. She must be a shut-in, but the family must be a real collection of dysfunctional types

I am sure this happens quite a lot in Japan and is sadly under reported. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

The sad reality is that this family didn't trust each other enough to deliver their own babies.

This story made me queasy.

If the baby died soon after birth why would they try to hide it and then get rid of the body later? The only rationale I can think of, aside from sheer insanity, is that the baby perhaps did not die of natural causes so the parents feared the consequences of reporting the death and disposing of the body properly.

Police said the family of six lived in a big two-story house.

Hmmm very interesting. This piece of evidence could break the case wide open.

Smith.

Like with many of this cases the pregnancy was never legally registered with the ward, which makes disposal of the Body illegal and of course also skews statistics.

There are certain things that need to be done after a pregnancy is registered, like doctor visits, courses, etc. This will also allow you to claim the "Child Birth allowance" which should cover most(or all) of the delivery costs in a Hospital.

I would say most likely the baby would have survived if it and the mother got the proper pre/post-natal care after registration.

Interesting that the police found out about this in the first place.

That just put me off my lunch!

Incest?? Hiding the so called evidence by burning the infants body in some park. RIP little baby

How did they get caught?

Burning something in a park, leaves a distinctive pattern, add in trace/dna evidence left behind. Rest is just proper police/foot work.

I wonder what I would have done as her father... hmmm. I see a jury or judge going with a stillborn, woman freaks, baby's father ?, she tells Dad and he does what most Dads would do...protect. Suspended sentence. Perhaps the guy felt the right thing to do was bring the bones home to bury behind the 'big' house.

I would have given her a lug around the head and taken her and the babies corpse to the local cop-shop.

Cremation takes over 1hr plus accelerants so not easy to go unnoticed, he was as dumb as she was.

RIP, small one.

The insane mother hiding pregnancy is a classic... but the silly idea of hiding remains relatives "found dead" in a park is starting to become a trend too.

ditto Yubaru & gogogo...

Can't imagine burning the body of your own grandchild. And where's the father of the baby?

How did they get caught?

Considering that it took the cops a month to arrest them, I would guess a security camera might have caught them (not necessarily while burning the corpse) and then the next day, a burned area in the park caught the attention of someone who called the cops.

Poor baby.

it is stories like this that make me want to operate a 24 hour 7 day a week no questions asked Akachan Post in my bloody genkan!

Grotesque macabre familly, something very wrong with this fammily and as elbuda says probably incest been goin on.

Not much insight or sympathy in these comments.

In America, there have been many cases of really big fat girls being pregnant and not knowing it until it is time to give birth. I always questioned the fact that they never tried to find out why they were not having their period, and babies are known to kick and turn long before birth.

As the nation is going fallen, people's morals as well.

What does house size have to do with any of this?

Burning the body was probably done for cremation. The father probably knew how illegal the whole thing was and wanted to give the kid a burial without interference thus bringing even more shame to their family. Just sad all around. This poor kid has no outlets to even show her family that she's carrying a child!? Awful.

Jforce.

100% agree. Sad that an adult woman can't confide in her family about her pregnancy And gives birth and I guess they baby died as its lungs weren't cleared fast enough or similar. She than hides the corpse for a year and when she confides, Daddy gives it an illegal/backyard cremation.

No shrine, etc will accept those remains now.

Just sad and I don't see the mother as the only one that should be held responsible.

Like I said if she had registered the pregnancy she still could have terminated it or brought it to term. She would have been given the mother/child booklet,etc. But atleast she would have had some support.

Talking from experience as I been down the road when my son was born as I guess many posters here been too.

RIP, you didn't have to die.

How could she manage to keep the dead baby in her room for a year? That's so insane!

Stories like this make me more sad than angry. Laws threating jail and arrests really don't help. They don't make irresponsible hopeless people into winners.

Its all pointless speculation if she killed the baby or if the baby would have otherwised lived. I could just as easily speculate that the baby would not have lasted a year in that house if it had lived.

In my opinion what is needed here is an investigation with an aim at educating these people and getting them the mental and financial help they probably need, all with a mind in making sure it never happens again. Jail won't help anything. All that will do is ensure they are all more careful next time. I'd rather just not have a next time.

Was the baby really still-born? Guess nobody will ever know, but it is not too much of a stretch of the imagination to think she snuffed the poor little tike.

@Disillusioned "That just put me off my lunch!" Lost my appetite too..after hearing of this south park barbeque... Sound's like "in house-incest, and home-made in Japan closet burial systems.. ugh

@Darren Brannan I totally understand your disbelief. I can hardly imagine this kind of story happening in my own country and I'm sure it doesn't happen in yours either. There are so many things wrong with this that it would take a completely broken society to accept it. Elsewhere there would be an uproar!

I mentioned this story at work today and my Japanese coworkers looked at me like they hadn't heard the news. I guess we have JT to thank for uncovering these kinds of stories. Shameful.

I can hardly imagine this kind of story happening in my own country

Actually, some women in your country cut the babies out of other women's wombs while the mother is still alive, then keep the baby for a week, then kill the baby and put it in the trash.

"the child died immediately ( after birth )"

This is sad.

Stay on topic please. Other countries are not relevant to this discussion.