She Starved Over 100 Babies… and Got Just 4 Years
In 1948 Tokyo, police found five tiny bodies inside a maternity home. Then the ashes of dozens more.
The killer wasn’t a stranger. She was a trusted midwife — Japan’s most prolific serial killer.
Miyuki Ishikawa, the “Demon Midwife,” took money from desperate parents and deliberately let their infants starve and freeze to death. Her body count may have exceeded 100. Her sentence? Only four years.
This is the true story of the Kotobuki Maternity Home murders — and how one woman’s quiet atrocities helped change Japanese law forever.
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