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FUKUOKA—Prosecutors here charged a former principal and a staff member at a nursery school over the heatstroke death of a 5-year-old boy who was trapped in a bus for hours last summer, sources said April 4.
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 women's 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 Ikari’s third-born son malnourished by cutting down the frequency of his meals and the amount of fo...