Abandoned as punishment, a 7-year-old Japanese boy disappears in bear-infested woods

It was supposed to be a form of punishment, a particularly harsh and memorable kind. But by the time Yamato Tanooka's parents came looking for him after intentionally abandoning the 7-year-old in the woods in northern Japan for several minutes, the boy was missing. “The parents left the boy in the mountains as punishment,” a […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/05/30/abandoned-as-punishment-a-7-year-old-japanese-boy-disappears-in-bear-infested-woods/