CHIBA, Japan - A man on Friday admitted to charges that he assaulted his 10-year-old daughter, who died in January last year in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, but has denied some of the claims leveled against him."I never starved her or weakened her. Neither did I keep her standing, or shower her with cold water," Yuichiro Kurihara, 42, said of daughter Mia in the first hearing at the Chiba District Court of the high-profile child abuse case.However, the father expressed "deep remorse," saying, "What I have done to my daughter is beyond the scope of the discipline. I was looking forward …READ FULL ARTICLE
