TOKYO, Nov. 20 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The Tokyo High Court upheld a lower court ruling that cleared a doctor of negligence for failing to provide proper treatment to a 4-year-old boy who died after a cotton candy stick got stuck in his throat and penetrated his brain in July 1999.
Presiding Judge Fumihiro Abe said the high court had found no negligence on the part of the defendant, Hideki Nemoto, 40, who treated Shunzo Sugino, a nursery school student, at Kyorin University Hospital in the city of Mitaka in the western suburbs of Tokyo.
Court upholds acquittal of doctor over boy's cotton candy stick death+