Episode 29: Meguro Child Abuse Death (Death of Yua Funato)

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Jul 30, 2026 · 12m

A five-year-old girl woke up at four in the morning every single day, not to go to school, not because of a nightmare — but because her stepfather ordered it. She had to exercise. Then she had to practice writing. And if she made a mistake — even a tiny one, a single crooked character in her notebook — there were consequences she was too small and too exhausted to survive. The message she left in that notebook is one of the most heartbreaking things I have ever read. And the worst part — the part that haunts everyone who looks at this case — is that the people whose job it was to protect her…