Case Summary

The final court decision was made, "Judicial settlement with the daycare"


Our 3 months old son was killed by Daycare.


In 2010, I dropped our baby to the daycare. 3 hours later I received phone call from the daycare worker and said they were at the hospital with my son because he wasn’t breathing.


When I arrived at the hospital, my baby was dead. The cause of death was bacterial pneumonia, told by the police


Few weeks later, unbelievable fact was unravelled, the daycare workers left my baby along with 12 other infants alone unattended by any adult and went to the Gym during the napping time, and they were hiding it until the testimony of an eyewitness told the police.


We felt something suspicious about the daycare, therefore we asked for legally autopsy, and the cause of death was not from bacterial pneumonia


The truth is, our baby was put facing down and was suffocated to death while they were at the Gym


We decided to bring a case and press charges against the daycare.

5 years of trial, we were convinced by the court and attorney that it is better to settle with the daycare. Of course we could never agree but after they told us how much it will cost us if we keep continue, it was almost like force decision.


Until today, the daycare hasn't given an apology nor condolence...

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Civil Trial

This picture was taken 2 hours before Hirotake died. The picture was used for communication notebook between parents and daycare.

They performed autopsy to find out the cause of his death, and the result was death from an illness.

At that time, they did not know what caused the illness. After the autopsy, they took one of Hirotake’s organ and did further investigation for what caused an illness. After a month later, University of Ryukyu Medical gave us a result, said The cause of illness was pneumonia by infection. When he took X-ray at yaeyama hospital, there was nothing on his lungs.  But Police keeps saying he died from infected pneumonia. Usually, people perform further research for how he got infected, however, they did not do further research for Hirotake. Then the case was closed.

In this photo, does he look he had pneumonia? We could not believe it thus, we asked for 2nd opinion to the different doctor. And the Doctor at Chiba and Aomori disagreed that baby had pneumonia, however the police keep saying “He died from pneumonia”

We do not want this kind of incident to happen to anyone anymore, so we spoke to the city office, and the City Office told us, in Ishigaki City, no one ever registered for running the daycare.
From now on, they make it mandatory for every daycare to register to the city office.

We thought every daycare had to register, but last month, 6months old baby was laid facing down and his heart stopped beating. It was exactly like Hirotake’s case, they took him to Naha and the baby survived, however, his brain got damaged and today 12/13/2012, the baby passed away.

We spoke to the parents of that baby, and they said, we need to stop having irresponsible daycare to run the business.

The daycare that killed that baby was also unauthorized daycare.


Tomorrow, December 14th, 2012, we are going to Naha City to file the lawsuit against the daycare in civil trial, and after that we are going to give a  press conference.

It has been 2 years and 10 months since Hirotake died, and we are going to start civil trial.

We do not want to hear the tragedy news anymore.
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