Infant's debilitating death Chiba Ichihara City Third party commissioned to verify correspondence June 12 19:07
This January, Ichihara City said that the city's response was insufficient due to the arrest of a 23-year-old mother in an apartment in Ichihara City, Chiba Prefecture, where she left a debilitated 10-month-old girl. Clarified the policy of performing verification by a third party.
In this case, the girls had not been subjected to infant medical examinations or vaccinations, and the kindergarten in the city had sent information to the Ichihara City that they could not see the girl, but the city met directly. I know that I didn't tell children's counseling centers that I couldn't do so.
Mayor Koide Koide, who held a press conference for the first time after the incident on the 12th, said, "If I could take a step further, I could have saved my young life. I am very sorry for the city's correspondence. I apologize."
On that basis, we will establish a third-party committee with experts as members next month as "We cannot deny the lack of crisis awareness. We will take this result seriously and work on countermeasures," about the city's response Clarified the policy for verification.
Also, Ichihara City had erroneously explained that there was no external information suspecting abuse before the girl's death, ``I did not intend to cover up due to lack of confirmation'', he said. It was