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...

Sunday, July 7, 2013

The article on Asahi Newspaper in Osaka

On June 6th, 2012, Asahi Newspaper in Osaka put the article about our incident.
After Hirotake’s death, Ishigaki City started to make it mandatory for all the daycare to register.

The daycare had to report any incident happened in the past at a daycare when they register, however they did not say anything about incident, including Hirotake’s death.

After we found out about it, we went to Ishigaki City Office and told them this daycare is not being honest. The city office worker told us, “We cannot change anything because the daycare wrote the report”

We were angry and told them, “so if a person put the false report, because he/she wrote the report city office accept it even if it is a lie”

When the daycare register, they have to put every little detail about what they do, especially private own daycare, they investigate if there is any false report. However the city office does not seem to care about the daycare putting false report about our son’s death.

On 07/17/2013, there will be a 4th court hearing in Naha District court.

I hope people learn from our son’s death, and the government will put more effort to make more regulations regards to running the daycare to create a safer environment where children are protected which the parents can trust.

(Translation for the asahi newspaper article)

In February 2010, in Ishigaki City, Okinawa Japan, Ms. Yoshino Arashiro who lost a 3months old baby boy, Hirotake Arashiro, request investigation to the daycare.

The childcare worker at a daycare left Hirotake and other babies, more than 10 infants, alone and went to a sport gym. About 40minutes later, the childcare worker returned to the daycare and found something was wrong with the baby. When daycare submitted the incident report, they did not mention about leaving the daycare unattended, and in the report which Okinawa prefecture office submitted to the Japan National Government office, the fact childcare worker left infants unattended for 40 minutes were not included. 


Original Japanese version of this article




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