A three-year-old girl has starved to death in Japan after her mother left her alone for eight days so she could go and visit her boyfriend 600 miles away. Saki Kakehashi, 24, from Tokyo, told police she did not expect her daughter Noa to die of severe dehydration and hunger. The girl was found to be wearing a nappy which had not been changed for days and had rashes on her bottom. Kakehashi is said to have claimed at first that Noa had been ill for several days but that she did not have the funds to take her to hospital. According to Noa's nursery, the girl had not attended for more than a year.

Source: Daily Mail July 09, 2020 00:14 UTC