Ex-nursery head, staffer found guilty over boy's death in school bus

The former head of a nursery school in southwestern Japan and a fellow staff member were found guilty Tuesday for failing to notice that they had left a 5-year-old boy inside a school bus, causing him to die of a heatstroke last year.The Fukuoka District Court sentenced Yoko Urakami, the 45-year-old head of the nursery school in Nakama, Fukuoka Prefecture, to two years in prison, as well as staff member Noriko Toba, 59, to 18 months in prison, both suspended for three years.According to the ruling, Toma Kurakake died on July 29, 2021, after being left alone inside the bus for nearly nine ho…READ FULL ARTICLE