Police question suspect's mother over dumping of 5-year-old girl's body

Monday 08th December, 05:35 AM JST

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cleo at 10:47 AM JST - 8th December

You'd have thought that they would have questioned all those in the apartment building

Who says they didn't? If they'd started pulling in everyone who was a bit strange or slow or with special needs - just because they were strange or slow or with special needs, and with not a scrap of physical evidence - all the usual suspects would be screaming about Police Trampling on Human Rights - and rightly so.
Disillusioned at 10:54 AM JST - 8th December

Who says they didn't? If they'd started pulling in everyone who was a bit strange or slow or with special needs - just because they were strange or slow or with special needs, and with not a scrap of physical evidence - all the usual suspects would be screaming about Police Trampling on Human Rights - and rightly so.

Sorry Cleo, that is called 'Police work'. Or, do you condone the Jp police waiting for a confession?
timorborder at 11:04 AM JST - 8th December

Think you are barking up the wrong tree here Cleo. Something just stinks with regard to the time taken to put this guy in the frame. As both you and I know, a well trained pooch could have slobbered all over the girl's clothes and led the POLIS to this chap in no time at all. It seems that somebody was asleep at the wheel.

Keeping this in mind, I wonder why this chap has been arrested now. No other leads and no evidence? It is obvious the pressure is on the solve this case, so the POLIS might have collared the "village idiot" so that everybody can sleep safe in their beds.
fatloser at 11:13 AM JST - 8th December

The killer is menatally ill and people should remember it!!!!!!!!!!! He is sick! I am far angrier at her grandfather---the owner and head doctor at the "hospital" where the victim's mother worked. The grandfather thought so little of his own daughter and granddaughter that,DESPITE BEING RICH, he had her working the night shift and must have made little effort to take care of his granddaughter. The killer's mother must have had a great deal of difficulty caring for her sick son. I hope that the media pounds the grandfather flat as a pancake!!!!!! MY QUESTION is WHY was the killer's mother left to care for her ill son ALONE and UNAIDED by society. My other question is WHY did a RICH doctor allow or force his daughter to work hours that forced her to neglect her daughter and why didn't the rich doctor watch the daughter at night?????
cleo at 11:43 AM JST - 8th December

Sorry Cleo, that is called 'Police work'.

Questioning people, yes. Arresting people because they're strange or slow, no.

I wonder why this chap has been arrested now. No other leads and no evidence?

Looks like you're answering your own question, timorborder. I'm not barking up any tree, by the way; simply pointing out that the lack of a suspect up until now doesn't mean the police haven't been questioning people in and around the area.

fatloser -

The suspect appears to be of low mental intellect, not mentally ill. There's a difference.

You're angry at a person who doesn't exist; the 'head doctor' at the hospital is the little girl's grandmother, not her grandfather. As a nurse, I doubt that the mother would have appreciated preferential treatment, as it would set her apart from the other nurses and may have caused bad feeling. We also have no idea what the mother's thoughts towards letting her parents keep her and her child might be. If she chose to maintain her dignity by working for a living, that was her choice. There is also no evidence that the grandmother 'made little effort to take care of (her) granddaughter.' They were together for most of the morning of the killing.
nandakandamanda at 12:48 PM JST - 8th December

When the bags of clothes were first spotted underneath a car, Scrote, the immediate assumption was that someone tossed them from the window of a passing car. The press jumped on this and did countless visual presentations of the scenarios. The angles were calculated, and everyone went off in search of this car, and possible commuter routes. No-one considered the possibility that the two bags might have been dropped from the window above, then to roll underneath the parked car.

My guess is that the witness who saw the alleged culprit carrying the girl's naked body away to dump it, has been too afraid to come forward until now, living in the same neighbour/neighborhood.
dennis0bauer at 03:35 PM JST - 8th December

I just hope they got the right guy, but it will not bring the kid back -__-
ambrosia at 05:47 PM JST - 8th December

he carried her body on foot to the dumping site, which is located some 100 meters from the condominium

Did he do that in the daytime and if so I'd seriously like to know how he did that without anyone seeing. 100 meters in most places in Tokyo and Chiba means you've walked past the residences of hundreds of people. No one was home? No one was on the streets? No one thought it odd that a man was carrying the limp body of a little girl? I can barely get out of our building -at any time of the day- without a running into a neighbor let alone to walk 100 meters with a dead child in my arms. How did he manage it?
Heda_Madness at 06:00 PM JST - 8th December

Guess you've never been to Togane...
BBLeo at 08:03 PM JST - 8th December

This is very interesting story, and I love to read comments going backwards and forwards. JT you article is good, and commentators are overloading themselves with hook and fishing rods. This could also be a small ring for nabbing children on the streets, and something else involved that police didn't discover yet. You should all wait until the investigation is completed. ‘‘When I was with the girl at my home...'How did she come to his home?
romulus3 at 10:34 PM JST - 8th December

No-one considered the possibility that the two bags might have been dropped from the window above, then to roll underneath the parked car.

please study physics.
romulus3 at 10:38 PM JST - 8th December

Cops grab guy simple guy without his mum or any legal advice and no recordings...."you did it and this is how you did it" they screamed at him for 18 hours, playing good cop bad cop.
Mayuki at 11:50 PM JST - 8th December

Ambrosia is right. It's not credible that a naked child could be carried from a building and a distance of 100 metres on a Sunday afternoon and NOBODY saw ANYTHING. There must be witnesses, if that is what in fact happened.
romulus3 at 12:41 AM JST - 9th December

There must be witnesses, if that is what in fact happened.

This is japan. There would have been people to see it. There were not because the investigation is questionable, because this is Japan.
kirakira25 at 11:45 AM JST - 11th December

Thank you Fatloser (I hate calling you that!) for voicing what I have been thinking the last few days. Mentally ill guy aside, what the hell was that 5 YEAR OLD doing out alone and unsupervised because her poor Mother had to work - and I didn`t even know it was the rich grandfathers hospital!

Unfortunately the media won`t pound him at all - he has the get out of jail free pass (rich doctor)