Turd Fergusen
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A Tokyo woman was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of leaving her 3-year-old daughter alone at home for more than a week and letting the child starve to death, police said.
Saki Kakehashi, 24, admitted to the allegations, the police said, adding they believe she had routinely neglected and abused the daughter, Noa.
A friend of Kakehashi’s told the police, “She had left home for several days or returned late at night, leaving her daughter unattended,” an investigative source said.
Autopsy results showed Noa died from severe dehydration and hunger, they said. The mother is suspected of leaving her alone at home for eight days in early June while visiting her boyfriend in Kagoshima Prefecture, according to an investigative source.
Kakehashi told investigators that she did not expect Noa to die as she thought “it would be alright” to leave the toddler alone in their apartment in Tokyo’s Ota Ward, where the two had been living alone since around July 2017 following her divorce from Noa’s father.
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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/08/national/crime-legal/tokyo-mother-arrested-daughter-neglect/
