22-year-old woman arrested for burying infant’s body in garden of vacant house May 10 01:15 pm JST May 10 | 03:15 pm JST NAGANO
Police have arrested a 22-year-old woman from Kanagawa Prefecture on suspicion of abandoning the corpse of her one-month-old daughter, by burying it in the garden of a vacant home in Nagano Prefecture last week.
Police said Satomi Takato, a part-time worker from Yokohama City, is accused of burying the infant’s body in the garden of the house in Tomi City sometime between May 1 and May 4, Sankei Shimbun reported. The house is Takato s former family residence and has been vacant since her father died.