In the
Carita Ridgway case, the non-Japanese
bar hostess allegedly had a hepatic
disorder from "play" with
Obara, the accused, and developed
fulminant hepatitis, which led her
into brain death and then ultimate
death in two weeks following the
"play." For this allegation,
Obara was accused. Dr. Akio Ishiyama,
a forensic doctor, appeared in court
as a witness and clarified that
"Carita Ridgwayﾕs liver had
already been suffering from some
hepatic disorders, both acute and
chronic, for a long time, when she
met Obara the accused."
It also became clear from a note
written by Obara that, around that
time, on Sunday, February 16th,
1992, Carita Ridgway said she was
feeling sick. Responding to this,
the accused called for a doctor,
who came to Obaraﾕs room at Zushi,
Kanagawa Prefecture, to examine
her. The court also found out that
the doctor gave her some antibiotics,
including an anti-nausea drug.
Carita Ridgway, when she first met
Obara the accused in XX (month),
1991, was working at a small bar
named "Takagi." After meeting the
accused, she moved, out of her own
will, to another bar, frequented
by Obara and some of his acquaintances,
including the general manager of
the bank branch Obara had dealing
with. There, later, she and Obara
developed sexual relationship, as
a bar hostess and her customer.
The accused already was in sexual
relationship with Carita before
he began to have his "play" with
her. She visited Obaraﾕs room at
Zushi twice. It is alleged that
she had "play" with the accused
on her first visit to the room,
not on the second one, which took
place several weeks later.
Whether this is true or not, the
experts of law involved have pointed
out this prosecution has a serious
problem. They say, a "third party"
in the legal sense of the term was
obviously involved in the incident.
According to what the court found out about the involvement
of this "third party," in the early morning of Monday,
February 17th, 1992, Carita visited Hideshima Hospital, within
several minutes of walk from the apartment house for non-Japanese
she live at, together with the accused. (Blamed for this Carita
case, this hospital changed its name on May 1st, 2006.) Around
2pm on the day of the visit, her doctor discovered her liver
showed some abnormal measurement values, according to the
hospital. Hideshima Hospital however, made a diagnosis that
Carita had a case of food poisoning and gave her two food
poisoning drugs, tetracycline and chlorpromazine, an anti-nausea
drug called chloramphenicol, and three fever reducers and
pain killers, "Anhiba," "Methylone," and
"Voltaren." The hospital gave her large doses of
these drugs three time a day, until Carita fell into brain
death on February 23nd.
All of those drugs administered,
tetracycline, chlorpromazine, chloramphenicol,
"Anhiba," "Methylone," and "Voltaren,"
cause serious liver problems. A
doctor must not use any of them
with a patient having a hepatic
disorder.
Administering such drugs to a patient
with a hepatic disorder only aggravates
the problem. Obviously, a patient
who can be cured otherwise would
be lost, with such an administration.
In addition to the problem mentioned
above, it has become clear that
some doctors specializing in hepatic
problems examined Caritaﾕs liver
with an electronic microscope then
and concluded that her fulminant
hepatitis was ascribable to some
viruses. |
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Licie's
Diary
