Man arrested after son’s remains found
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POLICE in Japan have arrested a man after skeletal remains, believed to be those of his 5-year-old son, were found in an apartment years after the boy’s death, reports said.
Police arrested truck driver Yukihiro Saito for allegedly denying food to his son Riku, who is believed to have starved to death in late 2006 or early 2007, according to the reports.
The remains were found in an apartment room filled with garbage in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo on Friday, they said.
The discovery was made after the local child welfare center told police last month that Riku was not attending the school he was supposed to be enrolled at, they said.
Saito used to live in the apartment with his wife and son but his wife reportedly left them in 2005.
He then started to neglect the boy. He found the child dead when he returned home one day and fled “because I was scared,” he was quoted as telling police.
He kept paying the rent for the apartment but moved to another place, the reports said.
The remains had been in the apartment for more than seven years.
Riku did not show up at enrolment for an elementary school in 2008 but welfare officials did not contact police.
The remains were found on the day that would have been his 13th birthday, the Tokyo Shimbun said.
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