Body of newborn baby found in trash can in toilet at train station

RIP.

Seriously...I would start giving REALLY stiff penalties for this type of crime....25yrs to life would be appropriate IMHO. Its because the penalties are so lenient these crimes continue to happen. The person will probably only get a 2 year suspended sentence at most, which really discusts me

Just an absolute shame for everyone involved.

There are other choices, where is the education and support, bringing a baby to term and leaving it like that is of course just totally wrong in every way, but what would lead someone to do that, to then have to live with no doubt severe physiological damage or to be so disconnected from life, love and feeling in the first place that they are capable of such a thing.

Why on earth every one is so again the contraceptive pill in Japan in such a sexually active country I will never understand. Every other developed nation seems to more or less ok with it. Especially when Japan doesn't have any particular brand of ridiculous religious dogma standing in its way.

Mirai, while I agree this is a crime and seemingly against everything human, I wonder if a woman for whatever reason has to hide her pregnancy for 9 months then most likely give birth alone in a public toilet or carpark she is unlikely to be swayed on her decisions by the threat of a punishment.

Im not making any excuses but I always believe for a terrible problem like this you have to approach it from a preventative position as well as putting persuasive punishments in place.

Japan does need more baby hatches. ( abandoned baby deposit box)

Copy-cat anyone? What is the score? Two or three times a year newborns show up in trash cans? Nice work ladies! After all, they are not people, they are just trash, right? Wrong! The trash is the loser that puts them their.

I want this babies, drop them to me instead!!

Didn't I just read a story of another baby be found in a river last week? This is so disturbing to see women resort to such actions. This is murder clear and simple.

I don't support anyone that deliberatly kills babies but I am sure that any woman in Japan suffers horible stigma and this is the outcome of that stigma.

Sorry... I meant to say any woman that has a baby out of wedlock, from an affair, a teen mother, rape, incest etc etc... Is all stigmatized towards the woman. There is little or no channels of support for these women. It's really sad.

If the find her, an equal punishment would be to put her in a trash bin and let her starve and suffocate. If that was the punishment then people would know from the fear they feel from the idea, and not seek justification when commiting it on someone else.. Abortions are far far more humane.

@nZ2011. RIP little one, such a disgrace that your parents were so stupid and cold to do that. My wife is about to give birth in a few days so this story brought tears to my eyes.

The mother obviously has mental health issues going on, or she wouldn't have done this, either that or she is just a animal and i dont think even animals would do this to their own new borns.

No reason to suggest that the infant wasn't still born?

Report lacking information that the cops have.

where is the education and support

This is the important matter here. Can you imagine how mixed up a woman must be to do this? Serious lack of compassion in this country I think.

Its a little hard to make any assumptions about this as yet, there is simply not enough information.

On the surface it seems a very simple and straight forward but if you consider, what if it was a 14yr old girl and this was the result of unwanted sexual contact, perhaps incest and that young woman was in a location where she was unable to seek help outside of her family.. my point being something terrible has happened and until more is known its not our place to judge just hope that the situation is resolved as best as it can be from here for everyone involved, and that if there is something to be learned it can be used to stop this kind of tragedy from occurring as frequently as it appears to in Japan.

Am 65 yrs.old but i want more kids if i had to.all unwanted pregnancies.come forward.give me your babies.dont throw them in garbage.if you love your pets love your kids too.

@Nz2011-Thanks for the nice comment, my wife will have the baby on Monday. Just when I read this article for the first time, it made me furious without thinking about other factors that may of led to this tragedy. All that matters in the end is that this baby will find peace in the afterlife. May God bless his soul.

Making excuses for women committing these crimes is criminal itself. There is no excuse for pre-meditated murder. And this is pre-meditated. Less you figure some women was ignorant enough to carry a fetus for 10 months and then be surprised when a baby popped out.... PLEASE! And not sure how may realize that Japan is at the top of the charts when it comes to abortion.

Spudman - No reason to suggest that the infant wasn't still born?

だから　なんだ？　So what? Does that make it acceptable? "Oh, the baby is dead. Just throw it away!"

I just read an article about women in Europe who can no longer take care of their children will leave them in baby hatches where applicable or abandoned the baby in hospitals, clinics or churches. The Baby Lives, you know. Police stations or Day cares are others place. Just drop him or her off and don't come back. Value the life of the child. Every life deserves to be lived.

hobart_mark, Its an easy article to have a strong reaction at, and I understand that, Im simply saying I don't know if its right to make judgements before any real facts are known. All we know is that tragically a new born baby was found dead that is all, how that came to be no one knows. It is sad for sure I agree with that much.

I think if we paint the world in these black and white certainties and absolutes we quickly end up in a corner with no where to move with out making a lot of grey....

Disillusioned

だから　なんだ？　So what? Does that make it acceptable? "Oh, the baby is dead. Just throw it away!"

Who would you tell, if you were keeping the pregnancy a secret? Which obviously she was otherwise the local hospitals would know whose baby this was.

Fact of the matter throwing away a dead baby is just as reprehensible as abortion, just not so "sterile" Either way the baby is dead.

Don't really understand your Japanese, what does it mean?

FFS have they no adoption in this country. Being an adopted person myself this really hits home. That could have been me.

Yes to spudman

we don't know if it was stillborn, or also, even if alive when put in trash and now dead, or dead before put in trash, or alive when put in trash and now still alive.

Or whether it looked like it was born there/vicinity, or born elsewhere and brought to said trash a day or two later.

In short, this is not a news article.

Hope they catch them and they should be charged with murder.

Sorry... I meant to say any woman that has a baby out of wedlock, from an affair, a teen mother, rape, incest etc etc... Is all stigmatized towards the woman. There is little or no channels of support for these women. It's really sad.

Definitely the western angle. 'Lets make excuses for the criminal', it's society's fault etc. etc. No excuses.

Man this is sad...don't they have anonymous baby boxes where they can hand them over for adoptoion. I remember reading about them on the Kyodo. They don't ask who you are they just want your babies.

This is very sick and sad, but in other JT news, young Japanese are not interested in sex?? how can so many Japanese girls be getting pregnant, dropping new born babies into rivers, toilets etc..to leave them to die?? If supposedly many Japanese are more into vegetables than sex?? RIP poor little baby out in Shizuoka.