CHIBA (TR) – Chiba Prefectural Police have arrested a lady and her husband over the alleged confinement and abuse of her older sister of their house in Matsudo City.
According to TBS News (Jan. 22), Nami Ichikawa, 45, and her husband, 38-year-old Harutaka, additionally acquired tens of thousands and thousands of yen in money from the sufferer.
Over a two-day interval in March 2023, Ichikawa and her husband are suspected of confining the 51-year-old girl of their house, demanding 800,000 yen in money and assaulting her, together with hanging her with the butt finish of a knife, and kicking her within the abdomen.
The sufferer suffered severe accidents, together with damaged ribs, which required a month-long remedy.
During questioning, Nami denied the fees. She mentioned, “That’s not true.” Harutaka additionally denied the fees. “I did not hit, kick or imprison her,” he mentioned.
The sufferer is Nami’s older sister, who formally lives in Saitama Prefecture. They started dwelling collectively round November 2022. Police consider she subjected to each day abuse.
At one level, the sister discovered a possibility to contact outdoors events and escape. The incident emerged after they contacted the Tokyo Metropolitan Police.
All instructed, the sister is believed to have given the couple tens of thousands and thousands of yen through the ordeal.
The sufferer reportedly mentioned she was solely given one bowl of rice a day and “was brainwashed and unable to escape.”
Police are investigating the circumstances that led to the incident.