An 8-year-old girl has committed suicide by hanging herself.
The 8-year-old girl, who resided together with her parents and 4 siblings in Osaka prefecture, was discovered by her 27-year-old mother on her return from work.
She had hanged herself by tying a towel around her neck and to a 1.8m high clothes rack on their apartment’s veranda, using a folding chair to reach the rack and as a platform from which to drop herself.
Her 29-year-old father immediately summoned emergency services, but the girl was later pronounced dead.
She is said to have been alone at home whilst her mother took other siblings to a nursery.
No note or other indication of why she chose to take her own life has been found.
Her parents previously complained to her school that somebody had vandalised her schoolbooks, writing her name and “die” on a total of 12 of them. At the time the girl took 8 days off school, but later returned.
The mother of one of her friends described her as “a polite little girl” and claims she was subject to harassment but seemed unaffected, whilst a local woman who knew the girl as “really cute” reports the girl had been the victim of physical abuse at the hands of classmates.
The school principal, pictured, feigns ignorance and denies any connection between the incident and the suicide, as might be expected:
“Some of the graffiti resembled her own handwriting, but we were unable to determine who wrote it. We don’t think her suicide was related to the graffiti. It’s truly regrettable that she lost her life like this.”
The local board of education backs the headteacher:
“Her condition at the time was stable – we consider the chance of the suicide being connected to bullying to be low.”
There is some suspicion the school is attempting to evade responsibility so they do not have to pay any compensation in the event their handling of the bullying turns out to be inadequate, as seems to be the case.
Police are treating the investigation as that of a suicide.
Suicide is the leading cause of death for young people in Japan, but elementary schooler suicides are exceedingly rare – since 1998 the less than 5 per year have been reported. In 2008 no incidents at all were recorded.
Hold on, I mean she’s the principal it’s hard to know what’s what when you haven’t been told what’s going on; BUT because of her statement she just bought her coffin.
What we really need in society today are anonymous persons willing to investigate the causes of such tradgeties, locate those ultimately responsible, collect evidence of their guilt, carefully review the information with one another to ensure the culprits are the culprite…
…and then utterly destroy their lives publicly, showing to all of their peers and friends what these assholes did and what pain it caused the the victim and their families. Then keep it up for the rest of their lives, or until they have made appology/restitution to the satisfaction of the victimized.
You know, because the police, courts, persons of responsibility, etc. are doing such a BANG-UP job.
In this case, the school admin would need a good look-at as well, including their e- & paper files, just to see what had been reported. As well as discussion with those around the girl to see anyone bothered to try and stand-up for her, or see if any of the school admin were notified. In this case it seems that many knew, but did s♥♥t about it. They deserve to be publically dishonored/burned as much as the ones who pushed the girl into murdering herself to get away from her life.
…Hopefully the parents didn’t turn a complete bline-eye as well.
Private detectives can take care of it.
With so many fucking pedos in Japan she’s probably made the best choice
s♥♥t. Well at least they have 3 kids left.
I hope they crucify that school…
Someone just lost his future wife, I feel sad for him T_T. How can children commit suicide anyways,it totally sucks if the parents don’t care about their children.
And about bullying, bullies should be tied to a chair and be hit with sticks by the other children to prevent bullying in the future yet noone cares really about punishing children just because their minds are fucked up.
People who can’t ignore others and just pick on them are human trash that should be sorted out and be incinerated like any good for nothing trash, why do the good people have to die and the fuckers survive? That’s the reason why our societies are so totally mentally fucked up with all that perverts and criminals out there.