Osaka woman gets 5 years for cutting off part of baby son's genitals

http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/391617

Tuesday, November 28, 2006 at 07:56 EST

OSAKA — A woman was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for mutilating her 4-month-old son by cutting off part of his genitals with a razor at their home in Izumi, Osaka Prefecture, in March 2004. Shizue Tamura, 27, had admitted to the assault during investigations, according to police, but she denied it in the court.

In handing down the ruling, Presiding Judge Masahiro Hosoi said, "It is an outrageous, grotesque crime targeting an innocent infant. The sorrow and pain the child may suffer when he grows up and comes to know about what happened is beyond imagination." The woman was beaten by the boy's father, to whom she was not married, and took out her anger on her son, the judge said in explaining the light sentence.

Somehow reading Gaijin Smash and then coming across this again in the same night ...



I'm kinda weirded out ,

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And i wanted to read it.

Well, it was an article from over a month ago, and I pretty much posted the entire article, word for word, above.

Mappy wrote:Well, it was an article from over a month ago, and I pretty much posted the entire article, word for word, above.

Ah right, i clicked the link and didnt bother to read the rest of your post.

An often repeated mistake. Nobody ever reads my posts. At least, nobody smart.

Mappy wrote:An often repeated mistake. Nobody ever reads my posts. At least, nobody smart.

That or someone who has the ability to surpress absolutely all emotion and feeling whatsoever.

They're called dead people.

So it's true! Your theory about me already being dead was right.

Atory wrote:So it's true! Your theory about my already being dead was right.

Fixed.

Probably.

WTF? How is that fixed?

So you're Undead?

*sharpens blades, loads guns, brews poisons, stirs explosives*

Come a little closer and say that.

Atory wrote:WTF? How is that fixed?

Well, I could fix it up even more, if you like. Little things like me/my seem to get to me if left unaltered....

Yes I now see how my is correct... I needed a good sleep before reading it. Damn country slang... no-one out here says my like that, they always say me. They even say me when taking possessively about something.

eg. They are me shoes.

Day is also pronounced dee out here.

I blame this on my viewing of too much television from the UK. When I was five, I had perfect BBC English. By my teens I sounded like I came from the Eastend. I even used the possessive "me". Somewhere along the line I've managed to iron all of this out. Probably about the time I first heard a Queenslander accent and decided that I wanted to sound most distinctly different....

Atory wrote:Day is also pronounced dee out here.