A high court in Japan upheld on Wednesday a sentence of 5 years in prison given to a 40-year-old woman for starving her 5-year-old son to death in 2020 under a friend's influence.Rie Ikari had received the sentence from the Fukuoka District Court in June after being convicted of causing death through negligence as a parent.Fukuoka High Court Presiding Judge Toshiya Matsuda said in rejecting the appeal that the lower court's ruling was "reasonable."Prosecutors had sought 10 years imprisonment at the lower court, but Ikari told the high court she had filed the appeal "in the slim hope" that s…READ FULL ARTICLE
