In a house in Honjo City, Saitama Prefecture, a mother and two men and women who lived together were arrested and indicted for beating a 5-year-old boy to death and abandoning the body under the floor. , The two men and women were re-arrested for hiding the death of an elderly woman who lived with them and defrauding them of their pension.
In March this year, the body of Ayumu Kakimoto (5) was found under the floor of a house in Honjo City, Saitama Prefecture. 55) and Hiroki Niwa (35) were arrested and indicted on charges of causing death by injury and abandoning a corpse.
According to the police, another skeletonized body was found under the floor during this investigation, and as a result of DNA analysis, it was confirmed that Ishii and Niwa were an elderly woman who lived in this house before. .
Although the woman has been dead for several years, the pension continued to be transferred to the woman's account even this year.
For this reason, the police hid the woman's death and defrauded Ishii and Niwa, who were living together at the time, for at least 5.8 million yen in pensions for the two years until February this year. He was re-arrested on suspicion of using documents.
According to investigative sources, security cameras showed Ishii withdrawing money from the woman's account at an ATM.
The money withdrawn was believed to have been used for living expenses, and the police are investigating the details.
Police have not disclosed the identity of the two men, citing an obstacle to the investigation.