Mother given 14 yrs in prison for killing 4-yr-old son
AKITA, Japan - File photo of Mika Shindo, a 32-year-old woman who was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Aug. 6 for abusing and killing her 4-year-old son in Daisen, Akita Prefecture last year. According to the Akita District Court's ruling, Shindo was together with her son and her boyfriend Hiroshi Hatakeyama, 44, inside a car on the day when she beat him on the head, seized him by the throat and later left him to die in an irrigation ditch near her home. The two were allegedly irritated by Ryosuke's presence in their date. (Kyodo)
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