Mother arrested on suspicion of killing 6-year-old son in Fukuoka park

Monday 22nd September, 09:03 AM JST

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Quirinus3 at 06:46 PM JST - 22nd September

Quirinus agrees with Romulus3, it stinks of mummy murder, its so sad.
romulus3 at 07:03 PM JST - 22nd September

chibaman,

romulus does not know his genius twin quirinus3 but agrees that mommy murder is bad. quirinus3 has once again shown the valuable contributions that his posts bring to JT. Powerful powerful insight.
YangYong at 07:28 PM JST - 22nd September

Absolutely beyond belief, it is still not computing that she did actually murder her little boy... then the acting, running around, getting everyone involved. Too sad.
sensei258 at 08:50 PM JST - 22nd September

I told you so. Check my other posts, same story.
Himajin at 09:52 PM JST - 22nd September

an estimated 92% of crimes go unreported, due to lack of faith in the police

How do you know, if it's unreported?
KitsuneYoukai at 10:34 PM JST - 22nd September

Sad; Sounds crazy the reasons why people commit crimes here. They almost sound trivial or something most people elsewhere could deal with and deal with. People here must really have a helpless feeling of no support from any avenue to take things this far.
usaexpat at 11:12 PM JST - 22nd September

I think unfortunately we all knew this was where this case was headed. If anything I feel better that it was the mother and not a psycho child killer on the loose. I still can't imagine illness or no how anyone could kill their own child. I hope this woman gets plenty of quality time in prison to think about what she has done.
NetteMarie at 11:19 PM JST - 22nd September

I had this solved 3 days ago.

Good police work! As many of these cases there have been in Tokyo metro area lately, police should wise up and look at the parent present first.

Is there any forensic science in Japan?
NetteMarie at 11:29 PM JST - 22nd September

btw, burro your evidence for the generalizations about Japanese police is in the Police Shot Himself story and the fact that Lindsay Hawkers killer has been running about since I returned to this country.
rurika at 03:06 AM JST - 23rd September

What kind of special needs did the boy have, mild problems or severe mental retardation? Was she so ashamed of her less-than-perfect child that she decided to kill him?
Himajin at 08:26 AM JST - 23rd September

Is there any forensic science in Japan?

It's tough to become a foresic specialist, I'd be tempted to say 'here' but I don't know if it's equally as arduous in the US or elsewhere. Our son was looking into it. 6 years of med school, then four more years of school after that, it's a long haul. And then the pay is crappy. As a result, there is less than one ME per prefecture, local doctors are called to accident scenes.
NagoyaGaijin at 08:44 AM JST - 23rd September

I think Rurika brings up a good question. What sort of special needs did this kid have? The description in the story itself suggests ADHD or something of the like..However, I also think there are many times when things get lost in translation here. Could it be that the child was autistic?
Special needs kids are definitely difficult to deal with, and without any sort of support from family (where's papa??), can be more than some people can handle. I am not in anyway condoning this crime, but just trying to look at potential motivations.

It is a sad case, no doubt. And whatever the motivation was, the mother should have found another way to release her stress (granted, that is a bit of stating the obvious).
NetteMarie at 04:18 PM JST - 23rd September

Himajin So what you're saying is basically no. Having one guy running a whole forensic lab is like having a mouse pull a wagon. It's not going anywhere.

Why isn't the government more concerned about faster accurate crime solving? If they did care, all the cases of kids being killed lately would be solved faster.

I taught at a government tax school. All the kids there are going to university for free. I think the government should support their people and provide a more accurate legal system than just confessions and guessing.

But the tax students will later bring in money....however more forensic scientists would save them money on long investigations and wasting paper on posters in a country which even the native people say everyone looks alike.

Moderator: Back on topic please.
goodDonkey at 06:48 PM JST - 23rd September

I was mistaken. I directed my sympathy towards the mother because I did not think she did it. Poor little Koki.

I had already written the following before the many other good people on here brought out the truth. I thought I would leave it in because it was part of my opinion. It also shows that many of us do not jump to conclusions when someone says Japan is some kind of a horrible place.

Cleopatra

Japan is the safest country in the world by a longshot. You can add up the numbers killed and reported by the media in Japan and then use a hasty generalization (that is what the fallacy is called) to draw your own conclusions or you can look at the statistics which say Japan's crime is minuscule in comparison to other countries.

I am in no way criticizing the posters who got it right and predicted it would turn out to be the mother. It would appear they used deductive reasoning from past examples to correctly determine the outcome.
bamboohat at 08:08 AM JST - 26th September

In another story (some indian newspaper) they are reporting that they kid had "developmental" disabilities, and attended a special needs school. The mom said she killed him to "prevent him from inheriting my illness".

So, she was actually doing the poor kid a favor by killing him, it turns out. What a sweet, thoughtful lady.

http://www.mumbaimirror.com

the story is somewhere on that link...