Post by Linalin on Mar 10, 2005 16:05:52 GMT -5
OSAKA — A 49-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of killing her 11-year-old son Thursday before attempting to commit suicide, saying she has been annoyed by her husband's business failure and arrest, police said.
"Because I felt it would be pitiful to leave the child alone, I strangled him when he was sleeping," Shizu Yamagata was quoted by the police as saying, admitting to killing Teppei, an elementary school boy, at their home in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture.
Her husband ran a bar in Higashiosaka but closed it in August last year because business was bad. He was arrested in February on suspicion of confining a person in a car after a quarrel at a "pachinko" gaming parlor, the police said.
The woman cut her wrist with a kitchen knife, but is not in serious condition, they said.
Her 76-year-old mother, who lives with her, called the police after finding the boy lying in the futon bedding shortly after 5 a.m. and being told by her daughter that she had killed the boy.
Paramedics went to their home at around 5:40 a.m. and took the boy to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The police at first arrested the woman on suspicion of attempted murder and plan to switch the charge to murder, they said.
And now she has to live with the guilt killing her son. Sad.
"Because I felt it would be pitiful to leave the child alone, I strangled him when he was sleeping," Shizu Yamagata was quoted by the police as saying, admitting to killing Teppei, an elementary school boy, at their home in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture.
Her husband ran a bar in Higashiosaka but closed it in August last year because business was bad. He was arrested in February on suspicion of confining a person in a car after a quarrel at a "pachinko" gaming parlor, the police said.
The woman cut her wrist with a kitchen knife, but is not in serious condition, they said.
Her 76-year-old mother, who lives with her, called the police after finding the boy lying in the futon bedding shortly after 5 a.m. and being told by her daughter that she had killed the boy.
Paramedics went to their home at around 5:40 a.m. and took the boy to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The police at first arrested the woman on suspicion of attempted murder and plan to switch the charge to murder, they said.
And now she has to live with the guilt killing her son. Sad.
