Japan woman weighing only 19 kg after 15-yr confinement found dead: police

A man and woman who were arrested after the death of their 33-year-old daughter confessed they confined her to a tiny room for around 15 years due to a mental illness they say made her violent, police sources said Monday.The police said that an autopsy showed the woman, Airi Kakimoto, whose body was recovered on Saturday from her Neyagawa home in western Japan's Osaka Prefecture, froze to death and that she was in a state of extreme malnutrition, weighing only 19 kilograms and standing 145 centimeters tall.Outdoor surveillance cameras discovered at Osaka confinement siteHer 55-year-old fath…READ FULL ARTICLE