Girl Kept Prisoner in Home for Most of Her Life
Mainichi Daily News
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Fukuoka (Japan):
A scrawny, tiny girl with horribly disheveled hair staggered through a park in Fukuoka. The girl, who looked as though she was in the early years of elementary school, was clearly in trouble and a concerned passerby stopped and escorted her to a nearby convenience store where the child called the police, according to Josei Seven.
The girl stood about 120 centimeters tall and weighed just 28 kilograms, about the average for a 7-year-old Japanese child.Imagine the horror, then, when police discovered the "girl" was actually an 18-year-old adult woman.
And it went beyond horror when the girl revealed she had been kept a virtual prisoner in her home for nearly all of her life.As she opened up a little more to the police officers who picked her up from the convenience store, investigators learned that the woman had argued with her mother over watching TV when she was banned from doing so.
Her mother had punched her in the face and back and the girl had walked out of their home.Penniless and barely able to walk, the stunted woman had stayed in a park for five days until the passerby came to her rescue.
Her mother, meanwhile, was arrested for assault and fined 100,000 yen by a summary court on Nov. 22. The mother paid the fine the same day and was released without further charges.
"My daughter's disabled. She breaks things and can't control her waste. She's a real shame. I didn't want to create problems for anybody else, so I didn't let her out," Josei Seven quotes the 40-year-old mother as telling the police.
Dec 12, 2005
Mainichi Daily News
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Fukuoka (Japan):
A scrawny, tiny girl with horribly disheveled hair staggered through a park in Fukuoka. The girl, who looked as though she was in the early years of elementary school, was clearly in trouble and a concerned passerby stopped and escorted her to a nearby convenience store where the child called the police, according to Josei Seven.
The girl stood about 120 centimeters tall and weighed just 28 kilograms, about the average for a 7-year-old Japanese child.Imagine the horror, then, when police discovered the "girl" was actually an 18-year-old adult woman.
And it went beyond horror when the girl revealed she had been kept a virtual prisoner in her home for nearly all of her life.As she opened up a little more to the police officers who picked her up from the convenience store, investigators learned that the woman had argued with her mother over watching TV when she was banned from doing so.
Her mother had punched her in the face and back and the girl had walked out of their home.Penniless and barely able to walk, the stunted woman had stayed in a park for five days until the passerby came to her rescue.
Her mother, meanwhile, was arrested for assault and fined 100,000 yen by a summary court on Nov. 22. The mother paid the fine the same day and was released without further charges.
"My daughter's disabled. She breaks things and can't control her waste. She's a real shame. I didn't want to create problems for anybody else, so I didn't let her out," Josei Seven quotes the 40-year-old mother as telling the police.
Dec 12, 2005
