Abandoned baby in a city center park or arrested a 23-year-old former female college student in Kobe
In November last year, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested a 23-year-old former female college student living in Kobe for abandoning her baby immediately after giving birth in a case where a newborn baby was found buried in the soil in a park in central Tokyo. did.
The baby has signs of suffocation and is being investigated for murder.
The person who was arrested was Koyuri Kitai (23), a clothing salesperson in Nishi-ku, Kobe.
According to investigators, it is suspected that the baby girl she gave birth to was abandoned in a ward park in Higashi-Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo last November.
It is believed that Kitai was attending a university in Hyogo prefecture at the time and was looking for a job, and immediately after arriving at Haneda Airport by plane to Tokyo, he had a baby earlier than the scheduled date.
The baby was found dead five days later, as the Metropolitan Police Department analyzed images from nearby security cameras and found that he had then taken a train to near the park.
According to the investigators, he admitted to the investigation and stated that "the child was born in a private room in the toilet at the airport. I went to the park and buried it."
The baby was known to have been suffocated, and the Metropolitan Police Department is investigating allegations of murder.
A figure walking around on a security camera Investigator "looks lost"
The incident was discovered on November 8, last year.
A female nursery teacher at a nearby nursery school found the body of a baby buried in the soil at the Italian Park in Higashi-Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo.
Upon closer examination by the Metropolitan Police Department, the baby was a young girl with an umbilical cord.
It was buried naked, and there were marks of suffocation with its mouth blocked.
The Metropolitan Police Department analyzed the images of the huge amount of security cameras around the park one by one, and continued the investigation to identify nearly 30,000 people who may have entered or exited the park.
As a result, it was confirmed that a 23-year-old former female university student living in Kobe was visiting the park on the night of November 3, five days before the baby's body was found.
According to the investigators, further investigation of their behavior at that time revealed that they were pregnant and consulted a medical institution, and that they had come to Tokyo for job hunting.
A security camera shows a baby walking around and going in and out of the park many times while holding a baby's body in a bag, and one investigator said, "I'm wondering what to do with my child. I saw it. "
Approximately one year after the incident, the Metropolitan Police Department arrested the suspect at home after asking him to accompany him and admitting that he had abandoned the baby.
The doctor who consulted "I didn't seem to be happy when I told him I was pregnant."
Investigations so far have revealed that the suspect visited a medical institution in Hyogo prefecture in September last year before the incident.
The obstetrician and gynecologist who corresponded at that time responded to the interview with NHK.
According to the doctor, he told me to think about a hospital where he would give birth because he found out that he was pregnant, but he sometimes gave an ambiguous answer and felt that something was a little strange.
The doctor said, "I told him I was pregnant and he nodded silently. I wasn't particularly shocked, but he didn't seem to be happy. I didn't talk about it because the time for abortion had passed. I'm talking.
After this, the suspect never visited the medical institution again.