The parents of a Japanese 7-year-old who has been missing for 2 days in woods near Hokkaido have admitted they left him alone to teach him a lesson.
Apparently the kid was acting out, throwing rocks at both cars and people at a park near the woods, when they decided they needed to punish him – doing so by dropping him for just a few minutes by himself in the woods. When they came back to pick him up he had disappeared.
Initially they told police that they lost him when they were out foraging vegetables, scared about how bad it would sound that they left him alone, which, admittedly, is very, very bad:
“I wanted to discipline him, so made him get out of the car to scare him a bit. He’s an active, lively boy, but I’m worried how he’s doing.”
There’s roughly 130 people out looking for him, including police and school officials. Part of me wants to believe that this is like a Hayao Miyazaki film, but also that forest is apparently home to bears. Yikes.
Source: BBC.
Photo: Getty Images / JTB Photo.
