A 23-year-old mother who was arrested eight days ago on a charge of abandoning her two toddlers in Osaka will face a new arrest warrant as early as next Tuesday on suspicion of murder, as her neglect is believed to have caused their deaths, police sources said Saturday.
An 18-year-old senior high school girl, meanwhile, will also face a murder charge after being arrested last Sunday on suspicion of abandoning her baby boy in a roadside ditch on July 26 in Kobe, local police sources said.
Sanae Shimomura has told police investigators since her July 30 arrest after the decomposing naked bodies of her 3-year-old daughter Sakurako and 1-year-old son Kaede were found at her apartment, “I knew they could not carry on living if I did not give them food or water,” the sources at the Osaka prefectural police said. (AP)

An 18-year-old senior high school student was arrested Sunday on suspicion of abandoning the body of a baby boy she had given birth to in a roadside ditch last month in Kobe, Hyogo prefectural police said.
Local junior high school students found a paper bag containing the naked body of a boy aged about several days in a plastic bag in the ditch in Kobe’s Kita Ward on the evening of July 26, according to the police. (AP)

A 37-year-old woman diagnosed with premature menopause had a baby boy earlier this month from an egg grown through the administration of a hormonal agent, her doctors said Saturday.St. Marianna University School of Medicine in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, stirred the formation of ovarian follicles by administering the hormonal agent to pick up eggs from it, and grew them using culture fluid for external fertilization. (Japan Times)
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