A 40-year-old man has pleaded guilty to fatally abusing his 35-year-old girlfriend’s 6-year-old daughter, during the first session of his lay jury trial at the Okayama District Court. According to the indictment, Seiji Funabashi abused Mao Nishida who died due to hypoxic encephalopathy in 2022, Kyodo News reported Thursday. Prosecutors…
OKAYAMA A panel of experts is criticizing a child consultation center for failing to heed concerns raised by police that a young girl’s life might be in danger a situation that ended in tragedy.