Parents often go to drastic measures to ensure a child’s future, but this father’s persistence cost him his son’s life.
A Japanese man is under police probe after allegedly stabbing his 12-year-old son with a kitchen knife after the boy refused to study for a school entrance exam.
Kengo Satake, 48, told hospital staff that he stabbed his own child “by mistake” during a heated argument on Sunday, over a test that would make him eligible to attend an elite private middle school, a TIME report said.
Officers from the Aichi prefecture in the city of Nagoya confirmed the young student, Ryota, died from massive blood loss on his way to the hospital.
Following the father’s revelation, the staff phoned authorities who immediately rushed to the scene.
“The father stabbed his son in the chest with a kitchen knife,” a police spokesperson confirmed after searching the apartment for evidence.
It was later revealed that Satake was an alumnus of the same private school in Aichi prefecture and was determined that his son follow the same path. The boy’s mother, meanwhile, was reportedly at work when the incident occurred.
The country’s admission into certain private learning establishments are extremely competitive, adding pressure to parents to push their children to study harder for the entrance exams. Khristian Ibarrola