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Japan woman held over keeping baby body in locker ‘for years’
TOKYO, Sept 25, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Tokyo police said Tuesday they had
arrested a 49-year-old woman suspected of dumping a stillborn baby’s body in
a coin locker, amid reports she had moved the corpse around for as many as
five years.
“The suspect… left and abandoned the body of an infant inside the
locker,” near Uguisudani Station, a Tokyo police spokeswoman told AFP, with
the latest incident occuring around September 13.
According to local media, the unemployed woman handed herself in and
confessed she had been storing the body in lockers near the station since
suffering a stillbirth “four or five years ago”.
“I panicked after I did not give birth to a living child and kept the body
as I could not dispose of it,” she told investigators, according to Kyodo
News.
She decided to turn herself in after she was kicked out of the home where
she was staying, Kyodo said. She had left the locker key behind and thought
someone might discover the body.
BSS/AFP/GMR/1254 hrs