To think that something does not seem right with the parents' story of the boy missing in Japan

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The story as theyve told is horrendous, but they've already lied once. Did they really just go for 5 minutes? How come he didn't run after them?

He's been found alive and well!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-36441612

exLt a bit of victim blaming there!

the senario you describe was true, I expect he was shit scared of them, hence the hiding.

Snow we know

Have you never had a child hide from you bakeoffcake?
I have. Some times they do it as a game (thanks for that heart attack DD) sometimes they do it to 'get their own back'

Child at school is a known 'runner'. He was told off at lunchtime and then 'disappeared' before the bell. Police, parents called, mini search party etc. Found just over 4 hours later hiding underneath a tarpaulin/paddling pool in a disused shed just off school grounds. Told the police he 'wanted to get the dinner lady told off' - so it happens.

I'm not victim blaming, I'm just not rushing to condem the parents when I don't know the full story.

The boy has been found. The parents said they put him out of the car, as punishment for throwing rocks. They abandoned him in a bear infested forest and when they came back, thry couldn't find him. The boy found a military hut to hide it until a soldier found him. He was alone, presumably frightened, starving and dehydrated, but he did not cry . There is going to be no investigation into this and the boy has been returned to his parents without question. They said they are sorry and they won't leave him alone in the woods again

I wish ensuring children's welfare came above avoiding blaming parents in the list of priorities.

Very pleased he has been found but really , just returned to parents with no follow up surely not? I would like to leave them in a forest alone for 7 days .

Poor love. He was probably hiding S he was scared of them. What sort of parent throws a child out of s car and drives off as a punishment?

Ffs I hope they are prosecuted or better still starved for a week themselves.

As for posters blaming the boy. The gods!

And the father's "apology" contained not one word of apology to his son for abandoning him.

I would assume the parents won't see their son for quite some time as they will be in prison. Surely?

We only know what is reported. And news coming out of Japan is unlikely to contain the full details. If the authorities are happy for the son to go back, maybe they have been able to investigate more fully than posters on MN?

Oh thank goodness for that

And i dont believe that exlteves comment was victim blaming either

Pretty sure the boys interests aren't best served right now by losing both his parents to a prison sentence.

Pretty sure the boys interests aren't best served right now by losing both his parents to a prison sentence

OK. Just let them off then. Perfectly acceptable behaviour of them.

They made a terrible error of judgement. A week without their child has no doubt given them a million times more pain than a prison sentence could.

Or perhaps there's more to it and this is part of a pattern of poor or neglectful parenting in which case the world has been alerted and checks will presumably be made.

The public shaming will be seen as a huge punishment in Japan. I hope it actually leads to some help for both the child and his parents. The boys behaviour seems extreme, as does the parents punishment/reaction to it. The whole family could do with some help.

This kind of reminds me of that story where that bloke said his kids had been swept away in that air balloon/inflatable thingy. It just doesn't sound quite right, like it has been set up.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_boy_hoax

How can you be so sure that the authorities in Japan have made the right decision to allow him to return to the parents when our own social services get it wrong on so many occasions.

The whole case is odd but I know nothing about Japanese society so can't judge how odd

I was thinking when posting on the gorilla thread that I was surprised there wasn't any equally long thread about this boy, I'm amazed people hadn't heard about it.

I believe it

I can easily imagine a discipline crazy and angry dad leaving the 7 year old by the road to teach him a lesson, and then its fucks up disastrously

I am SO pleased that lil bean is alive though

here ends this tale

Thank god he's safe, he must have been petrified!

My 7 year old thinks he would be ok, Im less convinced

And the father's "apology" contained not one word of apology to his son for abandoning him.

Surely that's something to be said directly to the boy, not the world's press?

We have no need to hang, draw and quarter the parents (leaving the child in care I suppose), they are Japanese, the loss of face will be devastating.

There but for the grace of god go others, anyway.

The father did apologise to his son. I definitely think there's something dodgy about this story.

Is anyone familiar with Japanese culture? I am not. I do remember reading many, many years ago that Japanese parents might lock an unruly teen out of the house rather than grounding them (as we would in the West) as a punishment. I wonder if this behaviour on the part of the parents that is so shocking to us is some sort of variant of that sort of thinking.