The latest work from Director Ueda Daisuke and Producer Miyata Terumi, who created "Ace Attorney's Truth" and "Ripened Family," will be streamed in its entirety! ▼Latest work: "Wandering Faith - Sources of Information Left to Die" • [Full-length streaming] Arrest of medical examiner who cooperated with coverage - Excerpts from statement transcript: "I decided to kill my dad... --------------------------------- ■A family torn apart - Examining shaken baby syndrome Narration: Toyoda Yasuo Director: Ueda Daisuke Cinematography: Hirata Shuji Editing: Muroyama Kenji Producers: Hagiwara Mamoru, Miyata Terumi KTV "The Document" Broadcast on July 7, 2023 ■Awards 2024 Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association Awards, Program Category (Television Reporting) Excellence Award 2023 Galaxy Awards, Television Category Selected Poverty Journalism Award Winner at the Za Koenji Documentary Festival <The Document official page> https://www.ktv.jp/document/ <The world of "criminal justice" pursued by a "lawyer journalist" ????> • [The world of "criminal justice" pursued by a "lawyer journalist"] ―――――――――――――――――――――――― Photographer Tomoaki Akasaka. In 2017, the peaceful life of his family of four changed completely. While Mr. Akasaka was rocking his eldest son, who was two months old at the time, at his home in Osaka City, the son's condition suddenly worsened and it seemed like something was stuck in his throat. He tried to help by hitting the son's back, but his condition did not improve, so he called 119. At the hospital, the son was found to have a subdural hematoma and retinal hemorrhage. On the day the son was scheduled to be discharged from the hospital, the child consultation center temporarily took custody of the son, and the Akasaka couple were not even told where he was. Mr. Akasaka was suspected of having Shaken Baby Syndrome, commonly known as SBS (Shaken Baby Syndrome). The hospital had reported that Mr. Akasaka was suspected of violently and violently shaking his son. Mr. and Mrs. Akasaka continued to plead for the son to be returned to their home as soon as possible, suggesting that he "live with his grandparents," but the child consultation center would not change its "assumed abuse" approach. And with their son gone, the Akasaka family faces further hardships. Mr. Akasaka is arrested and subsequently indicted on suspicion of assaulting his son. The criminal trial drags on, and during that time the child consultation center continues to restrict the father and son from living together, forcing Mr. Akasaka to live apart from his family for over four years. Just like Mr. Akasaka, another family was suspected of SBS in 2017 and separated from their beloved child for a long period of time. The Kanke couple. Their son, who was seven months old at the time, fell at home while trying to stand up and his condition worsened. He was rushed to the hospital, where a subdural hematoma and retinal bleeding were found. The hospital notified the child consultation center, saying that the symptoms were "not caused by a fall at home." The son was then temporarily taken into custody, and it was one year and four months later that he returned home. Arrests and indictments for SBS cases, which increased sharply in the 2010s, mainly in Osaka. However, with the launch of the "SBS Verification Project" in 2017, there have been a succession of acquittals in SBS trials denying the existence of "shaking," an unprecedented situation in Japan's criminal trials, where the conviction rate is 99.8%. What has become clear in the process are the problems with Japan's criminal justice system, symbolized by the SBS diagnosis that assumes abuse, child consultation centers that have become "welfare police," and "hostage justice"... Through the stories of two families who experienced "false accusations of abuse," the serious current situation surrounding the childcare environment is clearly revealed. #falseaccusation #ShakenBabySyndrome #child consultation centers