Mayumi Ono was arrested on July 1, a day after she was arrested for leaving her 2 year old granddaughter unattended Satoru Ogawa A 2 year-old girl alone in an apartment in Osaka Prefecture, amid a nationwide heat wave, while her family went to a theme park.
Osaka police arrested Mayumi Ono, 46, along with her common-law husband, Takanori Momoda, 50, on June 30. They are accused of neglecting her granddaughter Yuha Ono for 11 hours in her apartment in Tondabayashi, Osaka Prefecture.
The girl died on June 29 and police announced on June 30 that the cause of death was heatstroke.
The city's temperature was 34.5 degrees on June 29 at 2: 50 p.m.
According to police, Ono, who is unemployed, and Momoda, who is self-employed, left their home at around 5 a.m. They left Yuha in a playpen in the living room of their home, which is on the third floor of an apartment housing complex.
The Yuha was left unattended until around 4 p.m. that day. The two admitted to the charges, according to the police.
Ono and Momoda adopted Yuha from her parents and were raising her, police said.
Sources told police that We went to Universal Studios Japan, a popular amusement park in the city of Osaka.
Momoda told investigators that they had gone out and left Yuha unattended on several occasions. We've been under a lot of stress from parenting. According to the autopsy, Yuha appeared to have died on June 29 at around noon, according to police.
The police said more than half a day had passed since she had her last meal.
Yuha had lived with the couple, together with her uncles - Ono's fourth son, who is 15, and her fifth son, who is 5.
On June 29th, Yuha had been home alone since 7: 40 a.m.
When the 15-year-old returned home a little after 4 p.m., he found Yuha lying in her playpen and discovered she had vomited blood.
Momoda called for an ambulance at around 5: 20 p.m. after receiving the report, and said that a girl isn't breathing and she is stiff. Yuha was uninjured, according to the police. The girl was found in the four-bedroom apartment in a room the size of eight tatami mats, which had an air conditioner and a fan.
The 15-year-old boy told police that the air conditioner and fan were on when I came home. When police arrived at the scene and checked the air conditioner, the temperature was set at 28 degrees.
The playpen was 90 centimeters long, 120 cm wide and 88 cm high.
The police believe that it was hard for a 2 year-old to climb out of it, based on its structure.
There was no food or drink inside the playpen, police said, and no solids were found in her stomach.
The city government held a news conference on June 30 and announced that Yuha has been deemed a child in need of protection under the Child Welfare Law and under the supervision of officials since October 2020.
The city said Ono used to consult with the city about parenting. The city officials have never visited her home.
Yuha suffered from psychological abuse when her father battered her mother in January 2020 in front of her. She was not even 1 year old at the time.
Yuha has lived separately from her parents.
The city said it initially watched over Yuha in cooperation with a nursery school she attended.
In June 2021, Yuha left the nursery school because it was hard for Ono to pick up and drop off the toddler due to her work.
In December of the same year, the city reduced the risk for Yuha from need of protection to need of support, which means there are signs of abuse.
On June 15th, this year, Yuha received a checkup and Ono was scheduled to tour a child care facility on June 30.
The city officials said they did not find any signs of significant malnutrition or growth insufficiency during the checkup.