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The Kyoto Shimbun, April 22nd, 2011
Two-year-old child was assaulted and died two days later.

On April 21st, the Saitama Prefecture Satte precinct Police arrested the suspect Yoshihito Nakazawa (23) (Part-time worker, Higashi, Satte-City, Saitama Prefecture), on suspicion of violence to a 2-year-old girl who was the eldest daughter of the woman he lived with.
According to the police, her injuries were light, but her condition worsened on the 20th, the day following the violence, and she died on the 21st after being transported to hospital. Because of information from the hospital, the police interrogated the suspect Nakazawa on suspicion and he admitted to the assault. The Saitama Prefecture Police are investigating the role of this abuse in the child's death.
It is alleged that the suspect bit and hit the child's abdomen on April 19th at around 7:00pm in their apartment, causing injuries which required a week to ten days for recovering.

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