6-year-old boy found strangled in Fukuoka park

Friday 19th September, 06:09 AM JST

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DBC at 03:48 PM JST - 19th September

I hope the burn this thing that did this. RIP
Mz at 06:01 PM JST - 19th September

The more I think about it the more I wonder if the mother was involved...
sensei258 at 07:32 PM JST - 19th September

So a stranger came along at that exact moment, and strangled her son right outside the toilet, and she didn't know? That story stinks.
cwhite at 07:36 PM JST - 19th September

surveillance also only helps solve crimes not prevent them. Seldom are you able to react to footage while the crime is happening.
Dogdog at 10:32 PM JST - 19th September

So a stranger came along at that exact moment, and strangled her son right outside the toilet, and she didn't know? That story stinks.

I hate to say it but that was my thinking exactly.........
Himajin at 10:33 PM JST - 19th September

She called police and Koki was found slumped against the wall at the back of the toilet.

This is misleading. She came out of the toilet and he wasn't there, just his hat was on the ground. She screamed for help,20 people ran around looking for him and at that time he was not behind the toilet. When they searched the whole park and came back to the toilet ( in case he'd wandered back) they found him placed there.
pizzaboy at 11:33 PM JST - 19th September

If you have children, you take care of them. Do not trust them even to your own family.

LOL
1001tlc at 05:16 AM JST - 20th September

Sensei258: Dogdog:

I also suspect that something fishy is going on which involved da mother or... Hope I'm wrong.
sensei258 at 07:12 AM JST - 20th September

This reminds me of the teenage girl who was "attacked" in her family's garden. She was alone for a brief period, and a stranger walked by and scratched her arm with a saw that was there. Who believes that? What are the chances that this six year old boy was targeted, attacked, and murdered all within those few minutes the mother was on the toilet? And she didn't hear anything? In a park in the middle of the day, here in Japan? Better go talk to the mother again. And, ask the family and neighbors if she had an anger management problem.
LFRAgain at 07:30 AM JST - 20th September

It looks an awful lot like the story happened exactly as the woman said. She came out of the restroom, found her son missing, and called for help. While everyone was looking for the child, including the mother, the child's body was returned to the place where it was later found. I can see some aspects of the story that may seem fishy, but on the surface, it seems like a straight story. In any event, a child has been murdered, which is enough to give any parent the willies. I hope it doesn't turn out to be the mother and they fine the actual murderer soon.

Still, stories like this also remind me of the young Japanese girl who supposedly drowned after falling into a river, then a neighborhood boy dying the same way a few months later, and it turned out to be the mother of the first girl who died who killed both of them because she was quite insane. I remember her speaking to all the news crews and knashing her teeth and demanding that the police do something to find out how her daughter died, when in fact, she was the killer the entire time. I think she strangled then threw her daughter from a bridge for being "noisy."
romulus3 at 05:19 PM JST - 20th September

The boy, Koki Tomiishi, a first-grade pupil who lived near the park, came to the park at 2:30 p.m. with his mother.

If they lived near the park, why did mama have to use the parks toilet?
WilliB at 02:15 PM JST - 21st September

romulus3:

" If they lived near the park, why did mama have to use the parks toilet? "

Because she didn´t want to go home with the kid and then back to the park? Just a wild guess, Dr. Holmes.
MissWorldTravel at 09:59 AM JST - 22nd September

Latest news, it was the mother who did it...
bushlover at 03:33 AM JST - 23rd September

Which Park was it? Anyone know?
YadotNapaj at 11:08 PM JST - 23rd September

Apparently she told Police she strangled her own son because he was born with a learning disability and she did not want him to have to cope with the problems associated with it.

After strangling him she had the presence of mind to hide her son's lifeless body, his cell phone, and concocted this story about seeing a stranger in the park, to shift blame away from herself.

The cops are saying they suspected her from the beginning and waited until the wake and funeral were over out of respect for the soul of her son and other family members.

If she is found guilty, what do you think is an appropriate punishment?