Police said Tuesday they have arrested Yuji Motte, a 26-year-old baby sitter in Fujimi, Saitama Prefecture, in connection with the death of a boy whose body was found Monday morning in his apartment.
Motte was hired by the boy's mother through an online baby-sitting broker website. He was charged with abandoning the boy's body.
The baby sitter was quoted by the police as telling investigators, "I drank medicine at noon Sunday and fell asleep, and when I woke up Monday morning, (he) was dead."