Parents of Japanese boy left in forest won't face criminal charges

Treatment of Yamato Tanooka, whose parents abandoned him in a forest as punishment for being naughty, will be referred to social services The parents who abandoned their seven-year-old son in a Japanese forest as a punishment will not face charges, police have said. Yamato Tanooka survived for six nights alone after his mother and father left him on a mountain road in the woods of Hokkaido.