A 10-year-old girl who died in January after a series of apparent assaults by her father had been released from protective custody despite his suspected sexual abuse of her, local government sources said Tuesday.While 41-year-old Yuichiro Kurihara has already been indicted on assault-related charges after his daughter Mia was found dead in the bathroom of their home in Noda, Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, the sources said the girl told child welfare center officials in interviews in 2017 that her father had woken her up at night and pulled her pants down.She said her underwear also slipped d…READ FULL ARTICLE
