Fukuoka woman arrested for suffocating two newborn babies with her thighs

FUKUOKA (TR) – Fukuoka Prefectural Police have arrested a 29-year-old woman here on suspicion of murdering two of her newborn sons by suffocating them with her thighs and subsequently abandoning their bodies, reports FBS Fukuoka TV (Oct. 5).

Miaki Umezaki, a resident of Okawa City, faces charges of murder and the abandonment of a corpse, police announced on the 5th.

According to investigators, Umezaki gave birth to a baby boy at her home in mid-June of last year. She is accused of killing the infant shortly after birth by squeezing his chest between her thighs until he suffocated. She allegedly hid the corpse in a closet before placing it in a plastic bag and dumping it in a local irrigation canal.

In a second incident just over a year later, Umezaki gave birth to another boy at her residence between 7:20 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. on July 25. Police allege she suffocated the newborn by squeezing his neck with her thighs, then wrapped the infant’s body in a jacket and concealed it in her closet.

During questioning, Umezaki largely admitted to the allegations surrounding the June 2023 case. Regarding the July incident, she confessed to the murder but claimed a memory lapse regarding the concealment of the second body.

“There is no doubt I gave birth, but I suffered from anemia and don’t remember well,” she told police.

The grim investigation was launched on June 27 of last year when a maintenance worker cleaning a water gate in the Nitta area of Okawa City called 110 after spotting what appeared to be a baby’s remains.

Officers responding to the canal, which feeds into the Chikugo River, discovered the naked corpse of a newborn boy with his umbilical cord still attached. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

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福冈（TR）——据福冈电视台（10月5日）报道，福冈县警方逮捕了一名29岁女子，她涉嫌用大腿闷死两名新生儿子，随后弃尸。

警方于5日宣布，居住在大川市的梅崎美亚纪面临谋杀和遗弃尸体的指控。

据调查人员称，梅崎于去年六月中旬在家中生下一名男婴。她被控在婴儿出生后不久将其杀害，方法是用双腿夹住婴儿的胸部，直至其窒息而死。据称，她先将尸体藏在壁橱里，然后装入塑料袋，抛入当地的一条灌溉渠中。

一年多后，梅崎再次犯案。7月25日晚上7点20分至8点之间，她在住所生下了一个男婴。警方称，她用大腿夹住新生儿的脖子，导致其窒息而死，然后用外套包裹婴儿的尸体，藏在衣柜里。

在审讯过程中，梅崎基本承认了2023年6月案件的相关指控。关于7月的事件，她承认了谋杀罪行，但声称对藏匿第二具尸体一事记忆模糊。

“我肯定生了孩子，但我患有贫血，所以记不太清了，”她告诉警方。

去年 6 月 27 日，一名维修工人在大川市新田地区清理水闸时，发现疑似婴儿遗骸，随即拨打 110 报警，由此展开了这场令人震惊的调查。

警方赶到注入筑后川的运河时，发现一具赤裸的新生男婴尸体，脐带尚未脱落。男婴当场被宣布死亡。

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