Japanese comedian Kenji Kansai suspected of physically abusing 4-month-old daughter
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/08/06
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Kansai with daughter. (Photos from Kenji Kansai’s Facebook page)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A Japanese comedian, who has become a TV star in Taiwan, is suspected of badly battering his 4-month-old infant daughter.
The daughter 42-year-old Kenji Kansai (葛西健二), who has become a celebrity on Taiwanese TV and married a Taiwanese woman in 2012, took his daughter to a clinic on Saturday (Aug. 4) with serious head trauma, a nose contusion and numerous abrasions on her body, causing doctors to quickly become suspicious that the wounds had been inflicted by him, reported News Magazine Asia.
Oddly, earlier that day, Kansai had posted a photo of his baby being bathed and a large red mark was visible on her forehead, as well as welts on her cheeks, arms and navel. Concerned netizens soon wrote to him asking him if the water temperature was too high, to which he responded “Thank you for your advice, I will pay more attention to the water temperature next time I bathe her.”
After doctors examined the baby at the hospital, they found that she had suffered a skull fracture and symptoms of brain edema. When questioned by police, Kansai said that a month ago when he was not paying attention, his daughter “had fallen on her head, but fortunately she was not badly hurt,” reported ETtoday. At 3 months, babies are not yet able to crawl, but some can begin to roll somewhat at that stage. [FULL STORY]
