HYOGO (TR) – The physique of 6-year-old Nao Hosaka was found inside a suitcase dumped in Kobe City in June of final yr.
The following month, the boy’s uncle, Daichi Hosaka, 33, his mom, Saki, and two twin aunts who lived with him had been accused of abandoning a corpse. They had been later accused of homicide.
According to police, the 4 siblings beat Nao repeatedly with a steel pipe at their residence on June 19, 2023. They then climbed on his again and stomped on him a number of instances with each toes, inflicting his dying.
An examination of Nao’s physique revealed quite a few bruises throughout his again. The reason behind dying was doubtless traumatic shock, police stated final yr.
Based on news stories, Daichi was a commander of violence in the home after he moved into the residence in December 2022.
To this level, it’s a horrid story to make certain. But, sadly, it doesn’t finish there. The latest allegations reveal that Daichi’s obvious motive was romantic emotions for Saki, which police have realized he expressed by a sexual assault.
Detained in a closet
The 4 siblings, the 6-year-old boy and his grandmother lived in the identical residence in Nishi Ward. The physique of Nao was present in a suitcase in a grassy space close to the residence on June 22, 2023.
The story surfaced two days earlier than, when a passerby discovered the boy’s grandmother, Yumiko Hosaka, then 54, on a avenue with bruises. The fifth occupant of the residence, she had simply escaped from the house after being detained in a closet for about three months.
Her youngsters, together with Saki, Daichi and twins Tomomi Hosaka and Asaka Hosaka, had overwhelmed her with a metal pipe, police stated on the time.
Later, Saki took police to the grassy space. The boy’s physique was contained in the suitcase. He had suffered bruising to his again. An examination of safety digital camera footage confirmed the 4 siblings going out with a suitcase.
The 4 siblings had been initially arrested June 22 of that yr on suspicion of injuring and confining Yumiko between March and June.
On July 13, they had been rearrested on suspicion of abandoning a corpse. Ten days later, they had been additional accused of homicide.
The outcomes of an post-mortem revealed that Nao had died round June 19.
Using testimony from Yumiko, police decided Daichi instructed the opposite members of the family to rearrange for the suitcase in order that it could possibly be used to dump the boy’s physique.
Evaluation by an skilled
After these arrests, the prosecution positioned the siblings in detention for analysis by an skilled for about eight months. After the analysis, it was concluded that they could possibly be tried in prison courtroom.
In April of this yr, the 4 siblings had been indicted on fees of assault leading to dying and abandoning a corpse. However, Daichi’s fees didn’t cease there.
“On June 25, the prefectural police re-arrested Daichi on suspicion of non-consensual sexual intercourse and indecent assault against his sister [Saki] and others [his sisters],” an area news reporter tells Gendai Business (Jul. 9). “Daichi is accused of threatening his three sisters and committing indecent acts against them between the evening of the day he abandoned Nao’s body and the following morning.”
In different phrases, Daichi orchestrated the dumping of the boy of his nephew and sexually assaulted his sisters over the span of a single day.
“The turning point in the incident is said to have been Daichi’s birthday in May,” an investigator says, “which was not long before the incident. He was enraged that his family did not celebrate with him, and declared to his siblings that ‘June will be a month of hell.’ His target was Nao, the weakest member of the family.”
Daichi denies the newest allegations.
“But he has also admitted that he has romantic feelings for his sister,” continues the aforementioned investigative supply. “It is highly likely that he committed the crime out of jealousy after seeing [Saki] taking care of Nao.”
On September 3, police added recent fees to Daichi over the alleged assault leading to damage to Saki and others with the steel pipe.
On June 18, 2023 he’s alleged to have struck Saki a number of instances with the steel pipe on the residence and threatened her with a kitchen knife. He additionally struck his twin aunts and grandmother with a rubber spatula and different objects, injuring every of them.
According to police, he threatened Saki, saying, “Are you prepared to die?” As he stated this, he pointed a kitchen knife at her again. Police imagine that Daichi was a each day abuser of his household and managed them, in keeping with the Sankei Shimbun (Sep. 9).
Daichi denies the newest fees. “Everything written [in the arrest warrant] is a misunderstanding. It’s a lie,” he stated.
“I can’t go inside”
There had been indicators of hassle earlier than June 2023. From February, Nao started not attending day care. As nicely, workers members on the facility discovered a number of bruises on his buttocks and shoulder two months later.
In May, neighbors discovered Nao on the balcony. “Help, I can’t go inside,” he stated.
The day care contacted Kobe City concerning the case being attainable youngster abuse. However, when municipal officers visited the house, Saki and Yumiko denied figuring out the place the bruises got here from.
Officials returned to the residence on May 1. At that point, the bruises had healed, which brought about the officers to imagine that there was no imminent risk to the boy.
However, Saki informed the officers that elevating Nao was troublesome. She then requested them if they might quickly take the kid into custody.
Kobe City’s youngsters’s welfare middle made preparations to take custody of Nao the day. However, Yumiko stated they had been able to elevating the kid when officers visited.