In July last year, the first trial was held in Atsugi City, Kanagawa Prefecture, for a mother accused of causing death by abandoning her two young siblings in a car, and the mother was indicted. I acknowledge the content.
Defendant Reina Nagasawa (22) was in a car parked in a parking lot when she visited her boyfriend's house in Atsugi City in July last year. He has been accused of abandoning and causing death by a person in charge of protection for leaving Koga-kun (1) to die.
The cause of death for the two was heat stroke.
At her first trial at the Odawara branch of the Yokohama District Court on the 28th, when asked by the presiding judge about the charges against her mother, she tearfully said, "There is no doubt about it." I was.
In the opening statement, the prosecution said, "The defendant had left a child in the car before the incident. On the day of the incident, the air conditioner was not working well, but the sun was out for two and a half hours. I was meeting my dating partner for too long."
On top of that, he claimed, ``Immediately after the incident, he falsely explained to the police that 'the child became unconscious when he was in the park,' which is malicious.''
On the other hand, the defendant's lawyer argued, ``The defendant raised the child with love and was not abused.