OSAKA, Japan, March 10 (UPI) -- An Osaka woman, upset over her husband's business future, has been arrested on suspicion of killing her 11-month-old son before trying to commit suicide.
Police quoted the woman, Shizu Yamagata, 49, as saying she killed her son "because I felt it would be pitiful to leave the child alone. I strangled him when he was sleeping," Kyodo News reported Thursday. The charge was expected to be upped to murder.
The woman then her wrist with a kitchen knife, but was not in serious condition, officers said.
Her husband ran a bar in Higashiosaka but closed it in August last year because business was bad. He was arrested in February on suspicion of imprisoning a person in a car after a quarrel at a gaming parlor, the police said.
