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The Kyoto Shimbun, December 26th, 2010
The Hiroshima Prefecture Police arrested a man on suspicion of having stomped a female roommate's 2 years old daughter to death.

The Hiroshima Prefecture Eastern Precinct Police arrested the suspect, Masashi Yoshimura, manager of a convenience store, (26) (Yamane-Cho, Higashi-Ku, Hiroshima-City) on suspicion of having stomped his female roommate's two-year-old daughter to death on December the 25th.
He is suspected of murdering Akane who was the eldest daughter of a female roommate (27), by stomping her abdomen in the apartment bedroom around 3:00am of the 25th.
According to the Police, he admits in general committing the crime. The Police will examine the motive and whether there was regular abuse because there were several bruises including old ones on the back of Akane and on the foot. The three had been living together since the summer of this year.
The suspect, Yoshimura, came back from work just before 3:00AM. He phoned the Police around 7:00AM himself telling that her appearance was not normal and wasn't moving. Her mother did not notice any thing because she was sleeping in another room.
A housewife (43) who lives nearby said, "From about summer, I often heard shrieks of a young child when I passed near their apartment. I was worried but, I never imagined something like this. I'm so sad for her, so sad."

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