Boy missing after parents left him in a forest has been found, Japanese police say
Source: LA Times
mall boy whose disappearance in northern Japan engrossed the nation for six days and launched a discussion about what constitutes child abuse has been found unhurt, authorities said.
His parents had let him out of their car on the side of a mountain road Saturday night and drove away to punish him for having thrown rocks at cars earlier that day, according to national media accounts. They reportedly returned five minutes later to find that he was gone.
The state broadcaster NHK reported Friday morning that a search party found the boy, 7-year-old Yamato Tanooka, uninjured in the town of Shikabecho, about four miles from where he had been left on the island of Hokkaido. Police confirmed that he was found.
The boy told the police that soon after being abandoned he found shelter in a hut that was part of a national defense force training facility, according to the newspaper Mainichi Shimbun.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-boy-missing-japan-forest-found-20160602-snap-story.html
Gomez163
(2,039 posts)catchnrelease
(1,945 posts)You made me Lol!! (note my avatar )
montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)Stupid ass parents!
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Response to Gomez163 (Reply #1)
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provided airborne surveillance.
saltpoint
(50,986 posts)this story. It looked pretty iffy there for a while.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)And the best damn kaiju gymnast you ever saw!
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Never missed an episode on Saturday night as a kid.
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)But we are getting at least 14 new episodes
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Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Woo hoo! My favorite show as a kid is back!
dinkytron
(568 posts)Never enough Gamera.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Ash_F
(5,861 posts)nilram
(2,888 posts)including by this OP. Hardly LBN since it was first reported on May 30. Best wishes to all involved, including the OP.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12503473
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141470268
shanti
(21,675 posts)Since he has now been found.