Kyodo News -- The parents of a 12-year-old girl who killed herself last year in Kitamoto, Saitama Prefecture, said Thursday they will file a damages suit against the state and a local board of education, claiming they failed to prevent or investigate the bullying at school that drove the victim to take her own life.
On Oct. 11, 2005, Nakai jumped to her death from the roof of a condominium complex in Konosu, Saitama Prefecture.
Shinji Nakai, 56, and his wife, Setsuko, 52, hope that the case, to be filed with the Tokyo District Court, will establish whether it was bullying that caused their daughter to commit suicide, and what the school and state did to protect their daughter from bullies.
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