The case has haunted Japanese people for centuries: The evil nanny starved 169 children to death, hid their bodies throughout the city, and the verdict caused extreme outrage.

On January 12, 1948, two police officers from the Waseda area in Tokyo (Japan) accidentally discovered the remains of five newborn children.

Autopsies showed that they did not die naturally.

They call her names like `Demon Midwife` or `Onisanba`.

Miyuki Ishikawa was born in 1897 in Kunitomi town, Miyazaki prefecture, southern Japan.

Miyuki worked as a midwife in the Kotobuki maternity hospital many years later and became the hospital director because of her work experience, or in other words simply `living a long life`.

In the 1900s, in Japan there was no formal system of degrees or training certificates for the position of midwife or nanny.

In 1945, Japan was forced to sign an unconditional surrender treaty to end the war.

At that time, most Japanese people fell into poverty, food was depleted, social welfare and people’s lives were greatly affected.

Because abortion was illegal in Japan during this time, many couples had children they were unable to raise.

As someone who has direct contact with mothers in maternity hospitals, Miyuki has seen this, and also knows that charity resources are very weak.

Doing anything to prevent pregnancy was severely punished, even more terrible than abandoning a child to death.

And to `deal with` the creatures that were present at the wrong time, Miyuki asked to starve the children so that they would dry out and then take them away.

Miyuki soon realized that she needed help if she was to succeed in her plan, and so she involved both her husband and a doctor named Shiro Nakayama in her business.

We must emphasize the word business because her plan is aimed at making money and profit.

Miyuki and her husband Takeshi Ishikawa saw an opportunity to make easy money from children because she understood the psychology of poor couples and convinced them that the cost of her services would definitely be less than the

By simply paying Miyuki a sum of money, couples with unwanted children will never have to see their children again.

Miyuki Ishikawa would take care of killing the children, her husband would then collect money from the parents and Dr. Nakayama would be responsible for creating fake death certificates.

Their plan seemed perfect until the police discovered the dead bodies of five newborn babies.

Miyuki and her husband were arrested on January 15, 1948, but during the investigation, the police discovered more scary truths than they thought.

Authorities cannot accurately estimate the number of children who died at the hands of `that evil nanny`.

The trial of the case caused a stir.

In court, this cruel woman always denied her guilt.

Wooden crates at the Kotobuki maternity hospital, used by Miyuki to store the children’s bodies.

The investigation agency could not collect enough evidence to convict Miyuki Ishikawa and her husband, so the Japanese Supreme Court was forced to sentence her to 8 years in prison for `irresponsibility causing serious consequences`, the husband

This sentence caused anger and frustration in Japanese public opinion because everyone thought it was too light for the heinous crime committed by this evil nanny couple.

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