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Sankei Shimbun, April 27th, 2011

A 41-year old worker was arrested on suspicion of having abused the daughter (4) of the woman he lived with.

On April 26th, the Nara Prefecture Sakurai Precinct Police arrested the suspect Shingo Takemoto (41) (Part-time worker, Harada, Hashimoto City, Wakayama Prefecture), on suspicion of injuring the daughter of the woman he lived with. He admitted to the assault, confessing that he was angry because the girl was not attached to him.
It is alleged that during the night of the 18th October last year before the next morning the suspect grabbed her head, nailed to her head a bottle and caused a minor wound. The incident occurred in the apartment of the woman whom he lived with then.
According to the police, he abused her in April last year and she was protected at children's care facility, but she returned home. She has been again under protection since the incident in October last year.

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