Father Indicted in Maebashi Infant Abuse Death Case

"Breaking News ""Gunma Prefecture"".

By AI of ""Isesaki FM"".

A 24-year-old father has been indicted on charges of causing death by injury, etc., for assaulting and killing a newborn baby girl in an apartment in Maebashi City four years ago.

The defendant indicted is Masaki Kano, an office worker living in Koshigaya City, Saitama Prefecture.

According to the indictment, in November 2021, in an apartment in Maebashi City, he assaulted his daughter Mayu, who was one month old at the time, by pressing hard on her chest and stomach with his hands, causing her death.

In addition, he is also accused of causing injury by injuring her by pinching her stomach and back with his hands between one and two weeks after her birth.

Multiple fractures and bruises were confirmed on Mayu's body, and the defendant was living with his wife, their one-year-old eldest daughter, and Mayu at the time."