In the summer of 1988, the commissioner of the Sugamo Administration in Tokyo received a complaint from a landlord in the jurisdiction that a rented apartment was short of rent for more than a month, and there were no adults but only children. The door-to-door inspection revealed that only a 14-year-old boy, two girls aged 7 and 3 years old, a total of three children, lived together in this foul-smelling apartment with no gas or electricity, like a garbage dump.
After further searching, he found in the closet of the apartment a corpse of only a few months old baby that had been turned into bones. Re-investigation revealed that the youngest 2-year-old girl was missing. It was finally confirmed that she was violently tortured to death by her eldest son and her friend, and her body was thrown into the wild.
And the source of all these tragedies was their mother, who concealed their existence in order to live with their lover, and finally abandoned the responsibility of raising children, abandoned the children, and left alone.
▲A still from the movie "Nobody Knows" adapted from the incident
The specific thing is this:
In 1968, A, a young girl who had studied in a fashion college and dreamed of becoming a singer, lived with her boyfriend. At that time, she was only about 20 years old and had recorded some demo tapes of songs. A child wants to marry this man, but his family strongly opposes him. However, son A and his boyfriend's first child (child 1) was born soon. Because of having a child out of wedlock, they directly sent the child for adoption.
In 1973, A son and her boyfriend's second child was born in a hospital in Adachi Ward (child 2). A child thinks that her boyfriend has already sent a marriage application, the child is born in marriage, and the man also helps the child to issue a birth certificate. They raised this child by themselves, so let's be regarded as the eldest son. However, when the eldest son reached school age, the admission notice never came. Child A went to the office to ask and found that the man had not submitted the marriage application at all, let alone the child's birth certificate. This child is a complete black household. Immediately, the man took the 20W yen borrowed by son A from his parents and evaporated, and son A began to associate with different men. At this time, A child and his native family have basically cut off contact.
In 1981, daughter A (child 3) was born. Let this daughter count as the eldest daughter of the family. It is worth mentioning that since this daughter, Child A has given birth by herself at home, and she has not even gone to the hospital. Naturally, the child will not have a birth certificate, so it is completely black.
In September 1984, child A gave birth to another son (child 4). However, one day in February of the following year, son A came home from get off work and found that this second son, who was only a few months old, died at home with a milk bottle, and his body was cold. Child A put the child's body into a plastic bag, stuffed it with a lot of deodorant, sealed it and hid it. Regarding the question of the eldest son, "Where did the younger brother go", Son A dismissed him with "entrusting relatives' uncles to raise them". But in fact, all these eldest sons are in sight.
In 1985, the second daughter (child 5) was born.
In July 1986, three daughters (child 6) were born.
(Note: The dates of birth of several children are uncertain. In another document, except for the eldest son, they are all one year old. However, after calculating the ages based on the details of the incident, the probability I listed above is higher. In addition. , These six children, except for the adopted and eldest son sent out, the other children seem to be different fathers.)
Around September 1987, A son used the expressions "living with the eldest son", "the eldest son was studying at Rikkyo Middle School", and "the husband passed away a few years ago" to gain the trust of the landlord and neighbors, and was able to move into the apartment in Nishisugamo. . No one knew she had other children at all. In fact, she moved in with the bones of her 4 children and her second son.
However, Child A did not live with the children for long in Sugamo. From about October, she lied to her eldest son that she went to Osaka on business, left home, and went to Chiba to live with her lover at the time, a 56-year-old frozen food vendor. At this time, A child will remit 20,000 to 30,000 yen to the children from time to time, and occasionally, will go home to show up. But slowly, the number of times A child goes home less and less. In January 1988, after A came home once, he left the troublesome children in Sugamo's apartment, leaving another 200,000, and then completely moved to Chiba's lover's apartment. She only told her eldest son Chiba's apartment address. After that, she never went back to the Sugamo children's home, but occasionally met with the eldest son outside and paid 20,000 to 30,000.
After the mother left, the eldest son took on the mother's work: preparing food, changing diapers, and all of them. However, after all, children with little money can only buy junk food, frozen food, and ice cream at the convenience store downstairs. The people at the convenience store actually found it strange: these children sometimes come back at 2 or 3 at night, and sometimes when school is in class.
Speaking of class, this is what A said to the children: Because of some conditions, he can’t go to school and is currently going through the formalities. She buys teaching materials for children to teach some simple knowledge. The eldest son would write his surname in Chinese characters, but his name would only be written in a pseudonym.
According to the eldest son, sometimes a man would come to the apartment and ask them how they were doing. But they didn't know who this man was, whether it was the mother's lover, the eldest son's father, or which child's father.
The mother is away from home for longer and longer, and the matter has long been beyond the scope of the children's handling.
In March 1988, the gas and electricity at home were cut off due to arrears.
While his mother was away from home, the eldest son met two junior high school gangsters who were about the same age and often skipped classes while hanging out. Since the eldest son has no adults at home, it is a good place to skip school. The two gangsters began to go in and out of this house often.
On April 21st, the two gangster friends of the eldest son came to play again. One of them suddenly discovered that the instant noodles he had bought when he came the day before had disappeared. The eldest son found seaweed in the mouth of his 2-year-old little sister (the third daughter), guessing that the third daughter stole instant noodles. So, one said that the gangsters started beating their sisters with a wooden stick, and the other said that the eldest boy was also involved in the beating. The sisters kept apologizing, but stopped temporarily. After a while because of peeing, the three women were put on the folded cloth ball in the closet. The little girl was unsteady on the cloth ball, and the gangsters found it fun to slip and fall to the ground.
They deliberately put the girl up again and again to watch her fall off. The eldest son wanted to stop him and said, "Almost stop," but the bastard friend said, "Obviously it's fun, you should come together". I don't know how many times I fell like this, and the girl's body has become limp. The eldest son, who had not seen it well, helped his younger sister with heart massage and artificial respiration. But the atrocities that lasted for 4-5 hours before and after, how can a two-year-old child bear it? The body temperature of the third daughter has become cold, and the eldest son finally had to bring hot water to help the third daughter maintain her body temperature. The gangster who mainly committed the evil just left, leaving the eldest son and another gangster at home for the night. Then at around 8:30 the next morning, they found that the three women were completely cold and died at home like this.
The eldest son wanted to learn from his mother putting the body in a plastic bag and stuffing it with deodorant. But due to insufficient deodorant, the body soon began to smell. About a week later, the eldest son and two friends packed the body of his sister who had begun to decompose into his luggage, and took the tram overnight to abandon the body in the mixed woods of Omiya's Yoyama Park in Chichibu City.
About the girl who hit the end. The eldest son’s gangster friend said at first that “the eldest boy was prevented”, but then he confessed: “In the beginning, the eldest boy was also beaten.” The eldest son himself admitted that the three had bullied his sister together. But the eldest son’s defender believed that the fatal injuries of the three women were not the initial beatings, but because the eldest son’s gangster repeatedly let them fall from the closet.
From July 17th to 18th, the officer of Sugamo received a complaint from the landlord that the rent of a rented apartment had been owed for 4 months, no adults were found, and it was turned into a bad juvenile settlement. The officer came to investigate and opened the door of this apartment together with the landlord. A stench of sweat, trash, and feces rushed over his face. The eldest daughter (6 years old) and the second daughter (3 years old) were wrapped in blankets and lying on the ground in a mess of rubbish, looking very weak.
Especially the second daughter, skinny, can't even stand up. The two girls said they wanted to eat. The officer and the landlord bought some milk and bread, and they gobbled them up. Then the eldest son (14 years old) in pajamas appeared and said, "These two girls are children entrusted by the night shift businessmen to take care of our family. I am taking care of it. It's okay." "Mom is an employee of a clothing company in Osaka and currently works in a department store. . But because I was hospitalized recently, I couldn’t get in touch.” The officer persuaded the eldest son to go to the Child Welfare Center for help, but the eldest son still emphasized that "my words are okay." I have no choice but to make an appointment for the two younger sisters in the Shinjuku Child Welfare Center for the next day.
On the morning of the 21st, the eldest son, accompanied by his friend's father, visited the welfare center. However, because there was no space in the welfare institution in Tokyo, he was finally admitted to the child welfare center in Hachioji City. At the Children's Welfare Center, the eldest son finally admitted that "the two younger sisters who were entrusted to take care of them are actually his own younger sisters," but the three of them have different fathers. Regarding the health of the eldest son, one said that the eldest son was also very weak, but compared to the two younger sisters, he could at least stand and walk; the other said that the health and complexion of the eldest son were no different from ordinary people.
On the 22nd, according to the children, it should be four children living together. However, in the apartment, the searchers only found the baby's corpse, which had been turned into bones.
On the 23rd, a mother who lived with her lover in Chiba Prefecture "knowed about it from the news on TV and wanted to surrender, but was afraid that everyone would find out that she had done the bad thing about letting junior high school-age children take care of their toddlers." . Mother A was arrested urgently because of suspicion of being abandoned by the protector. It is said that she did not see her tears. According to the mother's confession, it was discovered that there should be another little girl, but her whereabouts are unknown.
On the 25th, the eldest son confessed to the death of the three daughters and was arrested on suspicion of causing death and abandoning the body. After telling the news of his sister's death, the eldest son's uneasy eyes finally settled down. The director of the welfare center said: “When the child said all the hidden things, he was much calmer. After the investigators went to the abandoned corpse site in Chichibu, he showed an expression of unloading the burden.” The staff of the center also said: "He was originally a good boy. He has not been polluted by society at all, and his mother is an absolute presence for him. However, after encountering bad friends, he became aware of the burden of taking care of young children."
The second son and third daughter who have died cannot obtain cremation permits because they have no household registration. Mother A, on August 9, submitted the birth certificates of 5 children and the death certificates of 2 children to the Toshima Ward Office.
On August 10, the eldest son was censored by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and handed over to Tokyo for family arbitration due to the crime of causing death from injury and abandoning the body. "The whole accident originated from the mother, and the eldest son must be educated." Therefore, as a special case, they were not sent to the juvenile management office, but sent to the education and nursing home of the child welfare institution for education. The two younger sisters were also sent to other protection agencies.
The other two juvenile offenders were sent to the juvenile court, but because they were under the age of criminal responsibility, they were handed over to the Sugamo Department for counselling. One said that the principal culprit was protected and restrained.
On October 26th, mother A son was sentenced to a certain period of time for “escaping the trouble of raising her own children, irresponsible, selfish, and unconsciously committing a crime. It is not an exaggeration to identify it as the long-term cause of the death of the three daughters”. Imprisonment for 3 years, suspended for 4 years. The probation sentence was due to mother A who vowed to marry her cohabiting lover in Urayasu City, and then take good care of the child. The judge gave a tender sentence in consideration of giving another opportunity to self-reliance.
The event's final outcome is that the mother took back the eldest daughter and second daughter, and lived with herself. The eldest son, the news is unknown.
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