FULL TEXT: A 58-year-old woman has told police that she was the
mother of six infants whose remains were found in an apartment near Tokyo on
Sunday. The woman said she gave birth to the last of the babies more than 10
years ago, according to a police official in Toda, 20 kilometres (12 miles)
northwest of Tokyo. Cleaners working in the apartment found six skeletons
stacked on the top shelf of a closet - five were in a plastic bag and one in a
plastic case, reports said. News reports said the woman's daughter and her
husband had rented the apartment 12 years ago. After the daughter got divorced,
the mother and a son moved in with her. The babies’ bodies were found after the
son, who was the last person to live in the apartment, moved out in March and
called in a cleaning service, according to television reports.
~ Bodies decomposed ~
The infants were believed to be aged between six months and
several years. The bodies were badly decomposed and neither the sex nor the
cause of death have been confirmed by police. Japanese newspaper reports quoted
neighbours who said that a couple in their 30s had lived in the apartment and
were later joined by the wife's mother and younger brother. However, the
renting agency later demanded that their agreement be cancelled as they were
behind on rent, reports said.
[“New lead on Japan dead babies,” BBC News, Apr. 8, 2002]
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FULL TEXT: Tokyo - A woman told police Monday that she gave birth
to six babies whose badly decomposed bodies were found in a vacant apartment
outside Tokyo, police said. The 58-year-old woman, whose daughter had been
renting the apartment, said she delivered the last of the babies more than 10
years ago, local police official Kazuhiko Nakanishi said. Housekeepers found
the bodies, five in plastic bags, in a closet on Sunday afternoon. The
apartment is located in Toda, a city 20km north-west of Tokyo. Police were
questioning the woman, whose name was being withheld. It was not clear if she
killed the babies or why she kept the bodies for more than a decade, said
Nakanishi, who declined to provide further details.
News reports said the woman's daughter began renting the apartment
12 years ago with her husband. After the couple divorced, the mother and her
son moved in with the younger woman. The dead babies were discovered when the
son, the last person to live in the apartment, moved out and called in a
cleaning service, television news reports said. Five of the babies were wrapped
in transparent bags and one was enclosed in a plastic case, police said.
[“Cleaners discover bags of
dead babies,” Sapa-AP, Apr. 8, 2002]
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For more cases of this type, see Serial Baby-Killer Moms.
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