Woman gets 3 1/2 years in prison over deaths of children left in hot car

And not even 'suspended for 5 years' or whatever. Good.

Too many kids are left in cars in Japan. Even leaving kids the car while you duck into the convenience store is too long. There really needs to be an educational campaign to stop people doing it. Fines and imprisonment don’t seem to be enough to stop these foolish people doing it. Too many accept it as ‘the norm’ to leave kids in cars.

Is a prison sentence meant to educate the mother?

It is not the answer here.

Is a prison sentence meant to educate the mother?

It is not the answer here.

So let's not even bother punishing anyone with jail time for any crime. Right?

Good that this selfish and negligent woman got jailed.

Rest in Peace to the poor little babies.

He said what was ultimately behind the incident was the mother's "immaturity."

Maybe it's time for a maturity license before people are allowed kids. You need a license to drive a car after all. A kid requires much more responsibility.

After three and a half years she can go shopping again!

What? Japan Today calls Nagasawa a mother (?), a woman who leaves her 1 year son Koga and 2 year daughter Hina for almost 3 hours in a car with windows closed on a fine summer day the 29th July because she does not want to be disturbed while dating her boyfriend? Nagasawa should of course be sentenced to many years in prison because she loves her boyfriend more than her children. And on her release, sentenced to to be steralized in a hospital and, banned from adopting any child or looking after children. Japan Today please note that Nagasawa is not a mother.

3.5 years…….how pathetic.

Hopefully the deciding gets at least double that amount in prison for making such a horrible call as well.

get real, and up it to at least 75 years. Let’s cut the crap here, seriously.

Those poor kids and the many others out there with thoughtless mothers like this.

Kurisupisu...

Is a prison sentence meant to educate the mother?

No, it is meant to punish her.

It is not the answer here.

Well, at least it will stop her breeding for the time she is in prison. That must be a good thing.

the mother left her 1-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter in a scorching hot vehicle for more than two hours and 40 minutes so she could spend time with her date.

In the mind of this woman, she assumed it was perfectly normal and totally acceptable to leave 2 children trapped in a car "for a few hours" in the middle of July.

I've been telling this over and over, don't take human beings for granted just because they look and dress like human beings. Lots of dangerous situations you can get yourself in for thinking everyone around you is a perfectly rational human being. Ex.: not looking both ways before crossing the road just because the sign is green for you.

Only 3.5 years??? In prison for two counts child slaughter? No wonder many keep doing these hideous crimes.

Mothers in Japan know that if they kill their own kids they will get a slap on the wrist.

Do you think she did it intentionally?

Mothers in Japan know that if they kill their own kids they will get a slap on the wrist.

Do you think she did it intentionally?

Ignorance is not an excuse for what she did. However, society as a whole has failed these two lost children... and her for that matter.

S

Poor kids who deserved better. RIP.

As a parent, there will always be times when you take your eyes off your children. The act of doing this for a short while should not equated with flagrant neglect like this. The two are clearly not the same.

It's nearly fifty years ago, but aged six I ran out into the road and was knocked over by a car in full view of my mother. I just wanted to run home to our house that was 200m away. It was not her fault.

Do you think she did it intentionally?

its a 50/50 roll of the dice. Obviously this wasn’t the first case in Japan which more often than one can imagine. To help mitigate this from happening in the future Japan should really think and start incorporating mandatory classes in senior high school and in sophomore college classes to educate these people how to be responsible parents if you ever happened to become one and show casing the most common scenario like the one in this article and how to prevent and what are the penalties. Until then. This crime will be a vicious cycle

These sort of of accidents are so frequent, so preventable and so inexcusable. Heart breaking.

She'll be in jail almost as long as she left the kids in the car.

The prison term is a joke! She shouldn't be allowed out until her life is almost over!

Horrible. Poor kids. She basically got the same sentence as that American Navy guy. She should have gotten ten years.

Lindsay, I agree. Education is the solution. Instead of all the useless garbage Junior High and High School students are expected to memorise, how about giving children an UNDERSTANDING of everyday things that are used. Machines, cars, computers, road sense, recycling, etc. And, of course, an understanding of energy use, what running fossil fuels does to the planet.

In this person's case, if she is on a date, surely she should find a baby sitter and not just dump the kids in a car.

Only 3 years? Give her the maximum 8 years....poor kids. Very sad due to a negligent muppet!

How is this not at least 12 years? Kill two kids, get three years. What the actual fuuu?

This happens to often not only in Japan but in many developed countries. What is sad, many of these same people would never leave that iPhone/ mobile phone behind.

Truly, these poor children get chosen over others or life.

Leaving children in hot car is not an accident. It’s cold blooded murder. Why there are so many child murder cases with the result like approving the murder. Japanese courts are sending out message saying it’s ok to torture and kill children. It’s shocking.

BertieWooster

Education is the solution.

Certainly could be up there in the ciriculum with checking left and right before crossing the road, and not bringing a plugged in charging keitai into the huro, and it would work.