Mothers arrested for suspected abuse Last year the nursery school contacted the ward and did not share information, August 14 18:39
In a case where a mother and an ex-dating partner were arrested in Katsushika-ku, Tokyo, for hitting the 3-year-old eldest son and injuring them at that time, it was revealed that the nursery school contacted the ward last year about the injury of the eldest son's body. It was However, the Metropolitan Police Department suspected that the abuse was repeated without sharing the information, and experts point out that the response should be verified.
Yuki Okima (26), an employee of a sex shop in Katsushika-ku, Tokyo, said in January that he had hit the face of his eldest son, who was 3 years old at the time, in the room of his home apartment. Jun Mukoyama (26) in Izumi Ward, Yokohama-shi, was arrested in March last year for suspicion of injury because he was injured by pulling his ears.
According to investigations so far, my eldest son had a broken right arm in February last year, but I was suspicious of the injury of the nursery teacher of the nursery school I was attending at that time and I contacted Katsushika Ward. I understand.
According to the ward, although he contacted the child guidance center in Tokyo, he said, "I could not judge it as abuse."
On the other hand, the child guidance center that was contacted by the ward did not recognize that it was a serious case, so he did not take measures such as temporarily protecting it and did not notify the Metropolitan Police Department.
Regarding this, Takashi Sugiyama, director of the Kanagawa University Psychological Consultation Center, who is familiar with the problem of abuse, said, "I feel that the information is not shared sufficiently among related organizations. We should verify the response in this case."
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, the offshore suspect acknowledges the allegations and states, “I was careful because I closed the toilet door with my foot, but I did not stop, so I struck it”.
In addition, Mr. Mukaiyama said that he was not pulling his ears enough to get hurt.
Katsushika Ward "I could not judge it as abuse without evidence"
Last year, Katsushika Ward, who had been contacted by the nursery school about the injury of his eldest son, said, "I couldn't judge it as abuse."
Yoshiyuki Kawakami, Director of the Katsushika City Child and Family Support Division, said, “I was contacted by the nursery school and met my mother, but I could not judge it as abuse because there was no concrete evidence. When I met the boy, the fracture was not healed. The ward had four meetings with his mother, one meeting with the former partner, and five boys' appearances. I did not contact the police because I reported it to the police, but I think that the ward has responded appropriately.I need to take the case seriously and verify whether the series of responses was appropriate in the future. I'm thinking."
Child guidance center "I did not recognize it as a serious case"
Yuichi Tatsuda, the director of the Adachi Children's Counseling Center, which Katsushika Ward contacted about the boy, said, "The Katsushika Ward only reported in a list including other cases, and it is necessary to handle it as an individual case. There was no request. I was involved with boys as a child guidance center, but this time after the boy was consciously taken to the hospital in January, I was not aware that it was a serious case until then." Talking