The stepfather of a 5-year-old girl admitted to assault and neglect leading to the child's death last year during his first court hearing Tuesday at the Tokyo District Court.Yudai Funato, 34, said, "That is correct," when Presiding Judge Minoru Morishita asked about his indictment over the fatal abuse of his stepdaughter Yua, who was assaulted and deprived of food in Tokyo's Meguro Ward from around late January last year.The child died on March 2 that year from sepsis after developing pneumonia. Funato, his cheeks sunken and wearing a suit that hung loosely over his frame, answered the judg…READ FULL ARTICLE