A lawyer for an Akita Prefecture woman arrested in the slaying of a 7-year-old neighbor boy in May said Monday he has been asked by his client not to tell the media about her daughter's April killing, which she has also confessed to perpetrating.
"I'd like you to wait," lawyer Hideki Arisaka quoted suspect Suzuka Hatakeyama as telling him recently.
Reversing past statements, Hatakeyama, 33, has admitted killing her 9-year-old daughter, Ayaka, by throwing the girl from a bridge into a river in April. Investigative sources said Hatakeyama told police that her daughter was "annoying."