About two former college students who were accused of neglecting safety management in a fire that killed a 5-year-old boy from a jungle gym exhibited at the event venue of Meijijingu Gaien in Tokyo five years ago. , The Tokyo District Court has sentenced him to a suspended sentence.
Two former university students of Nippon Institute of Technology were safe in 2016 at the event venue of Meiji Jingu Gaien in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, when a fire broke out from the wooden jungle gym on display and a 5-year-old boy died. He was charged with manslaughter for negligence.
At the trial, the prosecutor's office sentenced him to a year's imprisonment, while a former college student pleaded not guilty, saying he "did not predict the possibility of a fire."
In the ruling, Judge Kenji Shimotsu of the Tokyo District Court said, "When I turned on the floodlight inside and felt a high fever, I could fully predict that the fire would spread to the entire work with the flammable" plane "attached. However, I left it as it was. The degree of neglect of safety management is quite large. "
After that, he sentenced him to 10 months in prison and 3 years suspended sentence, saying, "I can't blame only two people because they haven't been properly instructed by university faculty members and senior students."
At the end, the presiding judge said, "Please remember the seriousness of the death of one person."
The faculty member in charge of the university, who was sent documents on suspicion of being fatally injured due to negligence in business, was investigated by the prosecution's examination committee and was not prosecuted again.