Mother strangles 14-year-old daughter following 'bullying' at school

A mother who confessed to killing her 14-year-old daughter, saying she wanted to put the teen out of her misery, has been arrested on suspicion of murder, law enforcers said.

Police said they received an emergency call from a 40-year-old woman in Itami at about 11:55 a.m. on Sunday, saying, "I've killed my daughter."

When officers from Itami Police Station rushed to the woman's home, they found the daughter lying dead on the floor of a bedroom in the home, with a belt wrapped around her neck. Police immediately arrested the woman on suspicion of murder.

"My daughter had been worried about educational problems, and I wanted to put her out of her misery," law enforcers quoted the woman as saying.

Sources close to the case said the mother, whose name has been withheld, had been in and out of hospital over the past five years to be treated for serious depression, and her daughter had been bullied at school over her mother's illness.
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