A Japanese court sentenced a 22-year-old woman to nine years in prison on Friday for starving her 2-year-old daughter to death last year in the northern prefecture of Hokkaido.The Sapporo District Court found Rina Ikeda did not give her daughter Kotori, who was assaulted and injured by her boyfriend, access to medical treatment or sufficiently feed her between late May and early June last year, leading to the girl's death.Presiding Judge Toshikazu Ishida criticized the defendant's act as "extremely irresponsible and malicious" as she went out for hours and left her daughter alone without fe…READ FULL ARTICLE
