Mom starves child, 8, to point of hospitalization 43 times to collect $40K in insurance payments

TOKYO– Police arrested Kasumi Nawata a Japanese woman in Osaka, Japan, for allegedly starving and abusing her eight-year-old daughter to hospitalize her and fraudulently claim insurance payments. Daito City officials said that Nawata told the school that her daughter has an intractable disease and needed to be hospitalized regularly to have tests done,…