The Tokyo District Court told a former college student who was accused of murder and murdered a baby immediately after giving birth in a toilet and buried it in a park in central Tokyo. He was sentenced to five years in prison.
Koyuri Kitai, a 24-year-old former university student in Kobe, stuffed toilet paper in the mouth of a baby who had just given birth in a toilet at Haneda Airport when she came to Tokyo for employment in November, and then strangled her. He was accused of murder and abandonment of the corpse for murdering him and then burying him in a park in Minato-ku, Tokyo.
At the trial, the prosecutor's office sentenced him to seven years in prison, while the defense alleged that he had panicked due to an earlier childbirth and demanded a suspended sentence.
In a ruling on the 24th, Toshiro Nohara, the judge of the Tokyo District Court, pointed out that "the baby was killed by his mother shortly after his birth, which should have been welcomed by his parents with joy. Did.
He added, "In order to avoid the impact on job hunting, I tried to kill the child in an attempt to make it absent. It was an ad hoc crime, and even considering that pregnancy is not the sole responsibility of the defendant, I was sentenced. Should not be postponed, "he sentenced him to five years in prison.