Grandma held in theft of grandson's savings

12/14/2005
The Asahi Shimbun

FUKUSHIMA--In an unusual case, a 71-year-old woman was indicted Monday on charges of embezzling 13.8 million yen from her 14-year-old grandson.

Prosecutors say Takano Yamaguchi, guardian of the boy, took the money from his savings here. His uncle, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, 46, and aunt, Kyoko Yamaguchi, 48, were also indicted.

The case is unusual because crimes such as theft committed between family members are usually not prosecuted under the Criminal Law.

The family court had selected the grandmother as the guardian for the boy after his mother died of an illness in June 2001. The grandmother was supposed to manage the mother's life insurance money and deposits.

The three suspects withdrew cash on a number of occasions from the mother's savings account from August 2001 to November 2003 for travel expenses, car payments and other purposes.

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/...0512140125.html

kim jung il, i noticed you tend to post up only the stories that make the japanese look like evil people or something..

Bad Grandma!

What does a fourteen year old need 13.8 million yen for anyway? 2

Why don't you go redirect that question to the Japanese media who frequently use Chinese and Koreans as scapegoats?

His aunt and uncle were robbers too

That is relevant to this forum because? Asiafinest supposed to be the harminous forum for Asians

I guess this is big news in Japan?

C'mon.. grandparents also need money.

well kim jung il(the poster) is chinese soo makes sense.

if so then the fact that he pretends to be north Korean says alot.

Im not north Korean. Im supr Chinese

Hmmm that's not very nice

exactly how much is a dollar to a yen..maybe its not that much of millions of dollars right? enlighten me someone

13 million yen is enough to but you 2 r34 gtr skylines in japan an then some.

Maybe for his university fund?

It's disgusting when adults exploit children for their own selfish agendas, however I would like to know if the grandma was the child's caretaker. If so, I think she should be entitled to some of it if it contributes to the cost of raising him.

o ok, now you trying to get people to think japanese are bad?

some1 who doesn't understand history, politics, world economy, foreign relations, or military, has not the right to make the comments you did (that means all your comments about the eastern asian issues)......cuz some1 like you will never understand chinese, japanese, or koreans politics.......just be cool with the hatred

Are they sure that the mother died of an "illness" . j/k

I smell another soap opera in the making!

how much is that in us $

118,975.734 U.S. dollars

thanks