It has been a week since the 12th day after a 3-year-old girl died of heatstroke after being left behind in a school bus at a certified children's center in Makinohara City, Shizuoka Prefecture.
Parents and guardians with children have been visiting the parking lot where the bus was parked and the flower offering stand in front of the nursery school since morning to mourn the deceased girl.
At Kawasaki Kindergarten, a certified children's center in Shizunami, Makinohara City, on the 5th of this month, Senna Kawamoto (3) died of heatstroke after being left in the bus for about five hours in the parking lot. did.
In the parking lot at the site and in front of the children's garden, there are so many bouquets of flowers and drinks that can't be placed on the stand.
From the morning of the 12th, parents and guardians with children visited the flower offering stand one after another and quietly put their hands together.
A woman in her 40s who lives in the neighborhood with a 3-year-old child said, "My child is in a different kindergarten, but it hurts my heart to think that I might have played with China somewhere. That day, I'm so sorry that I should have been able to pass by the park and notice it," he said with tears in his eyes.
A man in his 40s who works at a nursing home in Kakegawa City said, "Just a week has passed, and I don't want to forget this, so I offered paper cranes made by residents of the facility. I'm in charge of this, so I want them to know the importance of life."
A woman in her 20s who lived in Makinohara with her one-year-old child said, "I'm really scared if I think about my child going through something similar. I'm not going to send my child to nursery school. I plan to do so, but I would like to have thorough safety management."
On the other hand, on the 12th, when the bus was parked in the parking lot on the day of the incident, the police conducted inspections near the parking lot, stopped passing cars, and witnessed the bus around the same time. I was asking if you didn't.
The police believe that the children's garden neglected safety management, and are investigating the suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death by listening to stories from the director and the staff who corresponded at the time.