Can't Bear To Put His Two-month-old Son In The Freezer To Take Pictures, This Man Is Sentenced To Court

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JAKARTA - The desire to get the best pictures often causes people to neglect their own comfort, security and safety, be it for commercial purposes or just uploading them on social media.

Advances in technology and developments sometimes make people nowadays often neglect safety when they want to take the best pictures, whether for commercial purposes to uploads on social media.

Not a few whose life safety is threatened, some even have to lose their lives when they want to get the best picture. However, the act of this one man really went too far, risking his son's life for the sake of taking pictures.

The Osaka District Court, Japan on Monday sentenced a man to a fine of 300,000 yen (approximately Rp. 32,922,060) for briefly placing his 2-month-old son in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator in a hotel guest room, in April last year.

Tatsuji Nishioka, 43, who was convicted of assault, admitted he put his son in the fridge in his guest room in the southwestern city of Fukuoka, but said it was "only for a short time to take pictures," insisting that his act had to be done. not seen as a crime.

The court only ordered him to pay the fine, which met the full amount demanded by prosecutors, for not admitting that the child suffered from health problems afterward, Kyodo News reported July 25.

Meanwhile, Judge Yuko Okubo dismissed Nishioka's defense of her actions as "absurd," saying children at such a young age are incapable of regulating body temperature, with her son suffering from frostbite and hypothermia.

Based on the ruling, Nishioka placed her son, her second son, in a refrigerator in a hotel room in mid-April last year. Prosecutors said the freezer was operating at minus 18C and the child was only wrapped in a baby blanket.

In this regard, the child was temporarily placed in a child welfare center in September last year. According to Osaka prefectural police, evidence of what appeared to be child abuse was found on his smartphone and laptop.