Woman Leaves Baby To Drown In Bath While She Surfs Internet
by Beth on Thursday, October 10, 2013
by Beth on Thursday, October 10, 2013
A woman who left her 10-month old baby to drown in a bathtub while she used the internet has come under strong criticism from Japanese netizens.
The woman, who was in a male acquaintance’s apartment at the time of the accident, said that she was “glued to the internet” and had just left the child there. The child is in a critical condition in hospital.
Netizens agree that there was no excuse for the woman’s actions, and many can’t imagine why she would have left such a young child alone in the first place.
From Yomiuri Shimbun:
Son Of Woman Who Was “Glued To The Internet” In Critical Condition After Almost Drowning In Bath
At around 1:07am on October 9, there was a 119 call made by an unemployed woman (24), from an apartment block in Ishikicho, Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, saying “My child has drowned in the bath”.
When a member of the fire service rushed to the scene, the woman’s eldest son (a baby of 10 months old) was drowning in the bathtub. The child was taken to hospital, but remains unconscious in a critical condition.
In an announcement made by the Kariya division of the prefectural police, after the woman had bathed her son, she left him in the bath tub and went out of the bathroom. The plug had been pulled out of the tub, but when the boy was discovered a toy had blocked the plughole leaving around 30cm of water, and the child was floating face down in it. The woman said “I was glued to the internet”, and police are investigating circumstances at the time of the incident.
The incident occurred at the apartment of a male acquaintance of the woman, but at the time only the woman and her son were there.
