Officials at a home for the mentally disabled here forced a resident who was six months pregnant to take a childbirth-inducing drug in 1991 in an attempt to abort the fetus, a former employee of the home said.
The employee told Kyodo News on Sunday that the woman gave birth to a living boy who died under mysterious circumstances soon after birth. The employee said the death was officially registered as a stillbirth.
The home, which was not identified, is run by the head of a national organization of parents of mentally disabled children.
The 76-year-old head, who was not named, told Kyodo News that there was a woman at the home who became pregnant, but denied the allegations that early delivery was forced.