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2005/10/20

What happens to Japanese kids

@ 08:06 PM (36 months, 7 days ago)

Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 04:00 JST 2005 Kyodo News OSAKA — A 40-year-old woman was found dead in a condominium in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on Wednesday morning. Police said her 12-year-old son has admitted beating her. The vice principal and a teacher at the boy's school went to the condo after the school received a call from the boy's father, who lives in Tokyo. The father told the school that the boy had called him to say his mother was not moving, the police said. His parents, who were divorced, had consulted with the school about domestic violence committed by the boy in June, a school official said.

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