Police in Saitama City have arrested a 31-year-old woman on suspicion of attempted murder after she allegedly stabbed her two-year-old daughter with a knife at their home on Saturday.
According to police, Ayana Hayashi, a company employee, is accused of stabbing her daughter in the chest at their home in Minuma Ward at around 1:10 p.m. Saturday, Kyodo News reported.
At the time, Hayashi’s 38-year-old husband and his mother were home. Her husband heard their daughter scream from the bathroom and called 110 to report that his wife had stabbed their daughter.
The child was taken to hospital where doctors said her wound was not life-threatening.
Hayashi was quoted by police as saying she hated her husband and mother-in-law because of their attitude toward her mother.
© Japan Today
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餓死鬼
What did her daughter have to do with any of that?
Dave Fair
Maybe the police when reporting this story to the media could go one tiny itsy bitsy step further and tell us what hating her husband and mother-in-law had to do with trying to murder her 2 year-old daughter! Because that is the very first question that comes to mind for ANYONE reading this story. Another possible reason to that question is the patrolmen on scene never questioned the motive or had forgotten to ask, either equally perplexing!
Chabbawanga
Another nutter for the gallows. No mercy for child killers.
Old Sausage
When natural maternal feelings disappear we have to put in doubt mental sanity. The feelings I mentioned are hardwired in our brains by genetics. When the expression of these genes is not present anymore I suspect an extremely deep problem in the brain. 86 billion neurons in utter disharmony. At the end of the road, there is nobody home. This last statement may horrify you, or perhaps you will dismiss it, either way, it is the truth I have arrived at after an entire life of research and experimentation.
Stephen Chin
Hated her husband? And his mother? So, she stabbed to kill her two years baby? This crazy woman should be sterialized, not allowed to adopt any child or care for children and locked up in a prison for many years.
BertieWooster
She hated her husband and his mother because of their attitude to her mother, so she stabbed her daughter in the chest.
I wonder if this isn't just another psychiatric failure. There do seem to be rather a lot of them in the news recently.
CAPTAIN
I know right?
Mind boggling!!!
Reginald Bok
She should have stabbed her husband and his mother's then
BritishGaijin
How on earth her mind twisted her bottled resentment towards her husband and mother in law into attempting to murder her own toddler is just beyond me. I hope she's locked away for a very long time.
Nicholas
So how does stabbing her own daughter help things?I am sure she is hiding her real motive
garypen
Thank goodness.
Well, that oughta show 'em!
Bad Haircut
Terrible situation, and the poor little girl is scarred for life both physically and mentally.
There's a big information gap here. I wonder if she planned to take her daughter's life then her own, but either couldn't go through with it or somebody stopped her in the process, probably the husband. I guess we'll find out as the case unfolds.
garypen
Which article are you referring to? I only ask because there were no child killers mentioned in this one.
"...doctors said her wound was not life-threatening."
Mr Kipling
So to get back at them you try to murder your own daughter? Interesting....
purple_depressed_bacon
And this has what to do with her daughter exactly? That poor kid. Sadly, while the mother has been arrested, I doubt she'll get more than a slap on the wrist from the judge.
Redemption
Hopefully the toddler is young enough to forget this and will be safely away from her mother from now.
Mocheake
She hates them so she takes it out on one she loves? There's no real explanation for that action but let me take a whack at it. It seems that maybe at least the mother-in-law lives there, possibly the father-in-law too. The tradition of living with the husband's parents, or parents in general for that matter, can cause serious strife for married couples. That, plus all the other stresses and having a baby could drive someone to do very stupid or irrational things. Before tying the knot, I made it clear that living with any parents was not going to happen. I know a few who did not or could not go that route and are close to miserable but hide it well.
garypen
I think it's pretty obvious that she doesn't love her, and apparently views her as part of her husband's family, and not as her own child.
travelbangaijin
This is what overseas men are discussing on social media about Japanese women in general and to avoid dating in Japan - Japanese women do not talk about their problems, let it boil inside then burst out like a volcano into something crazy like this.
She could have easily talk to her husband or simply left the situation altogether and start over - but she choose to let it fester inside