A 16-year-old who cared for disabled people was falsely accused, jailed, and died weighing 44 pounds — she was completely innocent. She was sixteen.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/19/japan/crime-legal/mother-sues-state-daughter-death-after-detention/

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shifty@leminal.space · 38 pts · 30d (2 replies)

Hoimo@ani.social · 20 pts · 29d (1 reply)

Suspects can be held indefinitely under interrogation without charges.

The "See also" for that article should link the right to Speedy trial. Japan does recognize it, but it probably has some loophole where interrogation does not count, or the limit is quite high and they're abusing all of it.

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 29d

The article says she was jailed 18 days. She went 5 months after that shedding all the weight and dying. The headline implied that it all happened while jailed.

AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 34 pts · 29d (1 reply)

Damn. That's flat out medieval 'justice'. Wtf Japan?

Herr_S_aus_H@lemmy.zip · 34 pts · 29d

That's what happens when you instill a trust in authority that shall not be questioned and are more interested in piece and quiet than justice.

Hoimo@ani.social · 21 pts · 29d

Imagine being such a bored small town cop that you interrogate a nurse for 18 days over "assaulting" a patient. Like, what do you even expect to get out of that after day 1? The identity of the Zodiac Killer? Just gather up your evidence, file your charges and get a judge to look at it.

I have almost more respect for the corrupt cop who pockets the bribe and shreds the case than for officer Tightass who ignores justice to fuck over a suspect.

someguy3@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 29d

The lawsuit, filed with the Kobe District Court in Kobe Wednesday, argues that the girl’s 18-day ordeal at a jail traumatized her so much that five months after her release, she weighed just 20 kilograms — and died in December.

rapchee@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 29d

hikikomoris are right