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She found it difficult to cope with work in addition to caring for her two young children at home.
His eldest son Sotaro, especially, was a source of worry and stress, as he had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism, and was doing poorly in school.
For a year Madam Nami Ogata, 41, felt depressed: she lost 8 kg and suffered from panic attacks that overwhelmed her.
Then, on the morning of November 14 last year, the Japanese national strangled Sotaro, after five years, put his body in a car and drove to a secluded place on top of a hill in Bukit Batok, where he killed himself. stabbing.
On September 21, the state coroner Kamala Ponnampalam ruled the deaths as murder-suicide.
In his findings, which were published yesterday, the coroner said that Madam Nami had made preparations to carry out a series of acts, with the clear intention of their tragic consequences.
On November 11, three days before her death, Madam Nami told a doctor about her stress. She also saw a psychiatrist at the same clinic and revealed that she was depressed with suicidal thoughts.
When she was referred to Singapore General Hospital, she was found to be at low risk for suicide and was given insomnia medication.
The next day, he saw another psychiatrist and was diagnosed with a major depressive disorder and given more medication.
She told him that she had briefly thought about committing suicide the week before, but had not made any preparations and that she would not harm herself because of her children.
Madam Nami and Sotaro were last seen alive by their maid at 9 p.m. on November 13.
He read storybooks to his children and slept with them in his room. The aide said she heard no unusual noises or shocks that night.
At 6:10 a.m. the next day, the aide woke up to find that Mrs. Nami and Sotaro had disappeared. Then he saw a message from Madame Nami that she was taking her son to the hospital.
Disorientated
The unsuspecting aide continued with her usual duties, state coroner Kamala said, including taking Madame Nami’s youngest son to school.
But investigations indicated that Madam Nami had strangled her eldest son in the living room of her condo unit in Bukit Timah using a long rubber band with three knots and a raffia rope with duct tape.
Madame Nami then left home with Sotaro’s body, which she covered with a white blanket.
This is likely to hide the ligature marks on the boy’s neck, the coroner said. He also took a kitchen knife.
Mrs. Nami left the condo at 5.40am and arrived at Lorong Sesuai in Bukit Batok 10 minutes later.
He drove away, but returned a few minutes later, past the Bukit Batok Broadcast Station (BBTS), and stopped on a grassy edge near lamp post 15.
After turning off the engine, she got out, walked to the wooded area next to the car, and stabbed herself with the knife.
At 6:20 a.m. M., Two auxiliary policemen stationed at BBTS saw the car and went to check it. They saw Sotaro’s body in the back seat. Thinking he was asleep, one of them knocked on the door to wake him up. When he did not respond, the officer called the police.
The body of Mrs. Nami was found at the foot of a slope. He had injuries to both sides of his neck, multiple wounds to both wrists, and two stab wounds to the chest.
A bloodstained knife with an 18 cm blade was found one meter from his body. The mother and son were pronounced dead around 7:40 and 7:20, respectively.
Madame Nami’s husband, Mr. Ogato Tomoaki, was in China on a business trip and last spoke with her on November 10. He hadn’t felt anything unusual.
She said she loved her children and had never been violent towards them. It was only when he returned that he found a letter saying he had depression.
Police found two suicide notes written in Japanese.
In the note to her husband, Madam Nami said that her medication did not work.
State Coroner Kamala said: “He was concerned that if he collapsed, there would be no one to take care of the children. He apologized for his actions.”
Madam Nami also repeatedly asked her husband to take care of her youngest son and left specific instructions for his development, care and custody.
In her second note addressed to her brother in Japan, she begged him to take the youngest child into her custody and raise him along with her children. He also informed her of the financial arrangements he had made for the future expenses of the child.
Help lines
Samaritans of Singapore: 1800-221-4444
Singapore Association for Mental Health: 1800-283-7019
Mental Health Institute Crisis Helpline: 6389-2222
Care Corner Counseling Center (Mandarin): 1800-353-5800
Tinkle Friend (for kids): 1800-274-4788
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