Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.mixmin.net!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail From: CL Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Child mistreatment Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:23:38 +0900 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <190d7e5b-ba51-4c2d-8dd0-1679f18cd23d@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: feeder.motzarella.org U2FsdGVkX19i8iTInt1yQntIUwQONzh2QYkrcFDNBkfvVD1gNc8EcpRXOgmNQ/fBDOHFWr60h9yA6rpBIvW7Ozls1XWhBXjq+NHdP6PVKYncMYNuh17o0tbGhTckEGLqFqVW/IKnEPw= X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:23:49 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <190d7e5b-ba51-4c2d-8dd0-1679f18cd23d@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com> X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1/Mwcl1jzefefTfHBE+hJY1 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 071118-2, 2007-11-18), Outbound message Cancel-Lock: sha1:5JcmlGftq70dcKN7G0lnuMImL4k= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:166338 perniflard@gmail.com wrote: > We're trying to do what we can, the wife and a neighbour are feeding > her when we can talk to her (she's not allowed to go out to play, > never see her outside except for school) but this really enrages me to > see this kid practically dying before our eyes. So basically I wonder > if you guys have some advice on the question on legal possibilites. > This happens in Okazaki, Aichi by the way. You can write me directly > at perniflard (at) gmaill (dot) com, cheers. Unless you are a leading light among the Little People, the best thing you can do for yourself and your family is NOTHING. If you involve yourself, you will become the issue. If you are married to a Human Being, you may want to see if she will bring the problem to the attention of the other Human Beings, especially those Senior Human Beings in positions of authority. I would suggest that, if she do so, she use her Human (maiden) name and not the lesser one she acquired by marrying you ... unless, you just want to be seen as "doing something" instead of trying to correct the problem. This is one of those times when you can cause yourself endless grief by getting involved in something the locals do not want you to see or know about. If you can't find and influence agents of the Host Nationals, stay out of it. It is too bad about the kid next door, but you have the safety of your family to worry about and you never know whether the kid's mother watches all of those lawyer shows and knows the meaning of "songai baisho." If she hires a lawyer and goes after you for money, you will lose. Her odds are not so good if she goes up against another Human Being. Let them handle it. -- CL