Three staff members arrested for assault and destruction of evidence by residents at facilities for the disabled Tokyo

In March, a 41-year-old employee was arrested and charged with beating a resident man at a facility for the disabled in Ome City, Tokyo, and assaulted another resident. Three new employees were arrested on suspicion of assault and destruction of evidence.

On the 7th, the Metropolitan Police Department is searching the office of the facility and investigating the actual situation of the operation in detail.

At the "Independence Support School Ozaku SS", a facility to support people with disabilities in Ome City, Tokyo, a staff member, Daisuke Ochiai, was injured in March by hitting the face of a 30-year-old man who had been in the hospital. (41) was arrested and charged with injury.

The victim man subsequently died.

A further investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department, including analysis of the facility's security camera footage, revealed that a 62-year-old employee was suspected of trampling or kicking another resident, a 39-year-old man, last year. So, on the 7th, I was arrested on suspicion of assault.

The person arrested was Yuji Nakazawa, a 62-year-old former police officer of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, who admitted to the investigation that he did it because he didn't listen to the residents.

Another employee, a couple in their 60s, was also arrested on suspicion of destroying evidence for hiding the bloody gloves he was wearing when Ochiai assaulted the victim.

In response to the investigation, his wife admitted the charges and her husband denied them.

The Metropolitan Police Department suspected that the staff other than the three arrested were also involved in the destruction of evidence, and on the 7th, searched the office of the facility and investigated the actual situation of the operation in detail.

Chairman "I'm sorry for the residents and their families."

Riko Shirai, the chairman of the general incorporated association "Independence Support School" that operates the facility, responded to the news report on the 7th.

In this, the president said, "I did not know the assault on the residents," and said, "I am very sorry that the staff was arrested, and I am sorry for the residents and their families as the president. On the other hand, many residents cannot move to another facility or return to their families due to various reasons, so I would like to rebuild the facility somehow. "