Vietnamese trainee uninformed of Japan laws indicted for corpse abandonment of own babies
April 26, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
A Vietnamese technical intern talks about her deceased twins at a press conference in Kumamoto Prefecture s capital city of Kumamoto on April 24, 2021. (Mainichi/Takehiro Higuchi) KUMAMOTO A Vietnamese national in Japan s Technical Intern Training Program who was arrested and indicted on charges of abandoning the corpses of twin boys to whom she had given birth said that she had been afraid that she would be forced to return to her home country if others found out about her pregnancy. The 22-year-old defendant, who is currently out on bail, held a press conference here in this southwestern Japan city and argued that she was innocent, saying that after she gave birth to the two boys, she named them, wrapped them in towels, and laid them to rest. I was afraid that I would be forced to go back to my country if my pregnancy became known, so I couldn t