A 28-year-old woman who was a victim of domestic violence “until she was rescued by a support facility”.
Nonfiction writer Kota Ishii delves into the reality of the "young homeless," young people who have lost their homes!
Her husband had always had a bad drinking habit and would sometimes raise his hand to Himeka. After the couple fell out of love, he would sometimes suddenly hit her in the face or pour hot coffee on her when she was sleeping on the futon.
Himeka had no one to talk to about her problems, as she was in a strange place and emotionally ill. In her depression, she decided that she would rather die than go on like this, so she took large doses of drugs twice and finally made a plan to commit suicide involving her two children.
She came to her senses just before she was about to carry out the suicide. Terrified that she would really kill her children if she did not, she left the dormitory with a few days’ worth of clothes and her children in a light car.
The first night was spent in a business hotel, but the next day she decided to stay in the car, worried about money. With little money in his possession, he needed to find work immediately, but with no housing and two children in tow, it was hopeless.
Caught up, she entered private prostitution for 15,000 yen a time.
When she was trapped, she chose to engage in private prostitution. She would find customers online, go into hotels, and sell her body for 15,000 yen a time. She was paid about 15,000 yen per time. The price was about 15,000 yen per time.
She says, “I was sleeping in my car.
I was sleeping in my car, so I could make ends meet if I got one client every two days. While I was at the hotel, my children were taken care of at a day care center. I think it was an unlicensed place, but they kept them there for an hourly fee. I was able to shower at the hotel, but the children were not, so I would either wipe them off in the park bathroom or take them to the bath house occasionally.”
She lived like that for almost six months.
But one day, when she went to drop off her children at a day-care center, several people from the government office were waiting for Himeka. It seemed that the day-care center staff had contacted them because they were worried about Himeka’s behavior and what the children were saying and doing.
Himeka and her children were taken into custody on the spot. She and her children were then sent to a mother-child living support facility.
