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 20, 2012

Filing a lawsuit in Civil Court and Press Conference


On December 14th, 2012, we filed a civil lawsuit for damage in District Court in Naha City.

After the criminal lawsuit judged the daycare as not guilty, we asked for the signature for “re-investigate”, and we received 38000 signatures from all over Japan, with warm messages. We really appreciate their support and kind messages.

On August 2012, we went to Hyogo Japan to for National Child Support convention and spoke about our baby’s incident.  There were about 10000 people were gathered. Some people were crying listening to our story, and could not believe the children were unattended at the daycare.

On November 2012, we went to another convention in Tokyo, and spoke about our story.




Although our incident has been on newspapers, TV, and all kinds of media, it happened again. We really have got to stop and create an environment where parents can feel comfortable raising their kids.
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