Abusive father deprived daughter of sleep as well as food before her death

A 10-year-old girl who was found dead at her home near Tokyo last month had been deprived of sleep by her father in addition to being fed insufficiently and confined at home by her parents, investigative sources said.Mia Kurihara's mother, Nagisa, 31, has told investigators there were times Mia's father, Yuichiro, 41, woke the girl up to make her stand and that he prevented her from sleeping from around Jan. 22, two days before she was found dead with bruising to her body in the bathroom of their home in Noda, Chiba Prefecture, they said.The father was arrested on Jan. 25 for allegedly assa…READ FULL ARTICLE