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Doctor cleared in 4-year-old's death A doctor who failed to notice or remove part of a cotton candy stick that was lodged in the brain of a 4-year-old boy in July 1999, who did not bother to hospitalize the victim and who, the court acknowledged, tried to cover up his mistakes, was cleared March 28 of negligence resulting in death. The Tokyo District Court found Hideki Nemoto, 37, a former doctor at Kyorin University Hospital in Mitaka, Tokyo, not guilty. Presiding Judge Masaaki Kawaguchi recognized Nemoto's negligence in failing to conduct a full examination and make a sufficient diagnosis of Shunzo Sugino's condition. But the judge said the "chances that the boy's life could have been saved were very slim even if the defendant had noticed that part of the stick remained in the boy's brain." Sugino fell while holding a cotton candy stick in his mouth at a Bon summer festival in Suginami Ward, Tokyo, on July 10, 1999. The stick punctured the boy's throat and penetrated deep into his brain.
The Japan Times Weekly: April 8, 2006 |
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