OSAKA -- The Osaka prefectural police arrested a 34-year-old woman on Tuesday on suspicion that she withheld meals from her 9-year-old daughter and caused the girl to be hospitalized with the aim of swindling mutual aid money.
The police arrested Kasumi Nawata, a part-time worker in Daito, Osaka Prefecture, on suspicion of fraud, alleging that she had withheld meals from her daughter, a third-grade elementary school student, causing the girl to suffer from ketonic hypoglycemia.
The daughter had been hospitalized 43 times since 2018, and Nawata received a total of about 5.7 million yen during the period as mutual aid payments and insurance benefits.
