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A high court in Japan upheld on Nov. 9 a sentence of 5 years in prison given to a 40-year-old woman for starving her 5-year-old son to death in 2020 under a friends influence.

FUKUOKA--The Fukuoka District Court on Sept. 21 handed down a 15-year prison sentence sought by prosecutors to Emiko Akahori, 49, over the starving death of her friend’s son.

A 49-year-old woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday after a Japanese court found that she had manipulated her friend to starve her 5-year-old son to death. Emiko Akahori psychologically controlled the friend, Rie Ikari, 40, with lies, according to the ruling by&#x20...

FUKUOKA--In the opening of her trial, a woman accused of being in a domineering relationship denied any role in the starvation death of her friend’s 5-year-old son or bilking his mother out of her money.

FUKUOKA--A mother who allowed her 5-year-old son to starve to death while in a relationship with a domineering older woman was found guilty of abandoning her parental responsibilities and sentenced to five years in prison.

Fukuoka prefectural police officials hold a news conference on March 2. (Daichi Itakura) FUKUOKA--Two women in a "master-subordinate relationship" were arrested on March 2 here in connection with the starving death of one of the womens 5-year-old son, according to police.  Fukuoka prefectural police said Rie Ikari, 39, and Emiko Akahori, 48, abandoned their duties as guardians and left Ikari’s son Shojiro to die in April 2020. The women are accused of conspiring with each other to make Ik...