Junior high school student commits suicide at home.
Three years ago, a junior high school student committed suicide in Ikeda-cho, Fukui Prefecture, and the prosecutor's office charged that the charge of prosecution at the time was allegedly negligent and led to a charge. Voted. The prosecutor will then decide again whether to prosecute.
In March 2017, a 14-year-old male student committed suicide at a junior high school in Ikeda-cho, Fukui Prefecture, and the town's Investigation Committee repeatedly received severe guidance and reprimands from his homeroom teacher and vice-teacher, and was blamed for being cornered. .
On this issue, a civil society man accused his homeroom teacher, vice-teacher, and principal of the school of alleged negligence in work, but in February last year, the Fukui District Public Prosecutor's Office filed no charges and the man was examined by the Fukui prosecutor. I had filed a review with the association.
Of these, the prosecutor's committee said, `` It is necessary to ask the relevant officials whether there is a causal relationship between reprimand and the death of the student, how much he could predict suicide in advance, '' "No prosecution is unreasonable."
On the other hand, as for the assistant teacher and the school principal, "the suicide outcome could not be predicted in advance," he said, and the charges were reasonable.
The prosecutor will then investigate the classroom teacher again and decide again whether to prosecute.
Mr. Mitsuharu Murauchi, a citizens' group who has appealed the decision, said, "I am not convinced that only the homeroom teacher is unfairly unjustified. I would like to watch closely as the investigation resumes."
On the other hand, the Ikeda-cho Board of Education says, "There is no special comment."