Japan judo instructor guilty over child's death

[Bill Mattocks]

FYI...

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Japan judo instructor guilty over child's death

(AFP) – Oct 5, 2011

TOKYO — A Japanese court on Wednesday found a martial arts instructor guilty over the death of a six-year-old boy, a court official said, in the first criminal case over judo training in Japan.

The Osaka District Court found the instructor guilty of causing the boy's death by repeatedly slamming him to the floor during training, ordering the defendant to pay a fine of one million yen ($13,000), the official said.

It is the first criminal case filed by Japanese prosecutors against judo trainers, according to a victims' group, despite over 100 child deaths blamed on harsh training or hazing between 1983 and 2010.

The 36-year-old instructor, who owned a private judo club in Osaka, admitted he threw the boy excessively in training. The boy died in November last year from brain swelling, local reports said.

Ryo Uchida, associate professor at Nagoya University Graduate School of Education and Human Development, said at least 114 deaths during judo training had been reported between 1983 and 2010 at schools alone.

"The number of children's deaths, including those outside of schools, like the case of Osaka, remains unknown," Uchida told AFP.

 

[lklawson]

Good.

There's absolutely NO excuse for this sort of behavior in the modern world.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk