On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:00:50 -0800 (PST), perniflard@gmail.com wrote:

>We've all seen these stories on Japanese TV about (usually young)
>mothers maltreating their children (or worse), well guess what there's
>something similar happening next door and I am looking for information
>on what I could do to try and solve this issue. We understood about
>this problem until only recently, when the little girl in question
>entered the same elementary school as my child.
>
>We often see her with bruises on her face, she's been wearing exactly
>the same (unwashed) clothes everyday since she entered school last
>April and says she doesn't eat at home and therefore only has lunch
>while at school (and probably nothing much during week-ends or
>holidays either). She lives with her (young) mother and grandmother,
>both living in their own rooms (with their own TV sets) in which the
>kid is allowed access. If you've read "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo
>you get the picture.
>
>School knows about this problem but says that all they can do is wait
>for the result of the investigation from the ????? (jidou soudan jo),
>which must have been going for a while now. The kid was in a
>kindergaten before so they must have realized that something was wrong
>already at that time.
>
>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.


Call the authorities!!!!
Go the school and tell the school to call the authorities!!!!!
Keep calling the authorities!!!!!