Japanese Father Leaves Tired 7-Year-Old Son Alone on Mount Fuji, Sparks Online Outrage
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The police later found the father and gave him a severe verbal warning.
According to the Shizuoka Prefectural Police, a 7-year-old boy, an elementary school student, was found alone at the 6th station of the Fujinomiya trail on Mount Fuji on the morning of the 20th. He had become tired and fussy, and his father had told him to "wait for about 8 hours" and left him there. He was unharmed.
7-year-old boy left behind on Mt. Fuji by his own dad
Police not pleased with plan of leaving elementary schooler unattended for hours on Japan’s tallest mountain. “This summer, I hiked Mt. Fuji with my dad!” sounds like a pretty cool opening for a kid’s how-I-spent-my-summer-vacation essay. The composition gets less heartwarming, though, if it concludes with “And then I got to meet some policemen after he abandoned me on the side of the tallest mountain in Japan.” And yet, that’s exactly what happ…
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