OKAYAMA (TR) – Okayama Prefectural Police have re-arrested a 26-year-old company employee after she allegedly strangled her newborn daughter to death with a towel shortly after giving birth at home, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Nov. 15).
According to police, Kana Yamauchi, a resident of the Tamashima Otoshima district in Kurashiki City, is suspected of suffocating the infant between approximately 11:00 p.m. on October 31 and 12:50 a.m. on November 1.
Investigators believe Yamauchi gave birth to the baby girl in the toilet of her residence before carrying her into her bedroom, where she used a towel to strangle the child.
The infant’s body was later found stuffed inside a bag and hidden away in a closet, with a towel still wound tightly around her neck.
Yamauchi was initially arrested by police on November 5 on suspicion of abandoning a corpse. Following further investigation into the cause of death, officers served her with a fresh warrant for murder on Wednesday.
Police stated that Yamauchi has admitted to allegations of murder, saying, “There is no mistake.”
