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Parents of bullying victim win redress The Sendai High Court on May 28 overturned a 2002 lower court ruling and ordered seven people to pay a total ¥57.6 million to the parents of a 13-year-old boy killed in a 1993 bullying incident in Shinjo, Yamagata Prefecture. But the court rejected the family's damages claim against the Shinjo Municipal Government. The lawyers for the seven said they plan to appeal. The parents of Yuhei Kodama had demanded ¥194 million from the seven and the city of Shinjo, which runs Meirin Junior High School, where the boy was killed. The boy died Jan. 13, 1993, after being rolled up in a mattress in the school gymnasium's storeroom. The parents charged that the seven -- then students at the same school -- bullied the boy, pushed him into the mattress roll and left him there to suffocate. They sued the city for failure to supervise the children and negligence for not stopping the bullying of their son.
The Japan Times Weekly: June 5, 2004 |
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