The Shizuoka District Court on Thursday sentenced the former head of a kindergarten-nursery facility in the prefecture to one year and four months in prison without suspension over the death of a 3-year-old girl who died of heatstroke after being left on the school's bus in 2022.
The court found Tatsuyoshi Masuda, 74, former head of the facility, Kawasaki Yochien, guilty of professional negligence resulting in death over the incident.
The court also sentenced Ako Nishihara, 48, a former teacher of the girl, China Kawamoto, to one year in prison, suspended for three years.