This month, police arrested a 33-year-old hospitality store employee on suspicion of abandoning the body after a baby's body was found in a bag in a coin locker in Osaka.

The person arrested is Shigeru Taniguchi (33), a customer service employee with an unspecified address.

According to the police, in late January, it is suspected that the body of a newborn baby girl was dumped in a bag in a coin locker near Hankyu Electric Railway Juso Station in Yodogawa Ward, Osaka.

The baby was found in a warehouse where luggage left in a locker is stored on the 1th of this month, and the police were checking the sales history of the bag.

He admitted the charges to the investigation and said, "I didn't have any money, I didn't know whose child it was, and I didn't plan to raise it, so I threw it in a coin locker that was difficult to find."

Since the baby still had an umbilical cord, police are investigating how it was abandoned immediately after birth.

Consult an unexpected pregnancy "Nishin SOS"

If you are worried about an unexpected pregnancy, there are consultation desks in various places.

Consultation about worries such as "I got pregnant but can't raise my child," "I got pregnant unexpectedly and I'm not sure whether to give birth,"

or "I want to give birth but I don't have the cost of childbirth"

can also lead to government and life support.

On the website (https://zenninnet-sos.org)
of the National Pregnancy SOS Network, a general incorporated association, a consultation desk for local "Ninshin SOS" is posted.

In Kansai, we have established "Nishin SOS" in the following regions.

【Osaka】
0725-51-7778Weekdays
10 a.m. to 4
p.m. Sundays from 0:6 p.m.
to 06
p.m. 【Osaka City】
6791-1324-9Weekdays
4

a.m. to 078 p.m. [Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture]
351-3400-24
075 hours a

day【Kyoto City】
841-1521-10Weekdays
3 a.m. to 090
p.m.
[Shiga Prefecture] 8810-2499-6
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 8 p.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays 4 p.m

. to 080

In addition to the above phone calls, there are also places where you can consult by e-mail or LINE, and in Nara and Wakayama prefectures, consultations are

accepted at prefectural offices.

【Nara】
The Nara Prefecture Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists accepts consultations at a dedicated window.
The telephone number is 8323-1450-9
Every day, from


0 am to midnight, consultations are accepted at the Wakayama Prefecture Counseling Center for Children, Women and Persons with Disabilities.
The telephone number is 073-445-0793

from 9 a.m. to 9:<> p.m., except for the year-end and New Year holidays.