Ah, thank you. Oni-Sanba! There must be a film about this, or based on it, if I know Japanese cinema? Sounds like she and her doctor friend took the Irish nun appraoch of 'neglect em to death' eh.
This and the other cases does show how in an age of no contraception, illegal/criminalized abortion and severe lack of resources for most folks, as well as a lack of societal structure to support them, an excess of children occur and thus are not really valued in the slightest, but treated as burdens. I mentioned in earlier, but pretty much every society if you go back practiced infanticide as a matter of course for all sorts of reasons including being female.
Wiki offers up this tidbit on Japanese methods:
The pre-Islamic Arabs used to stuff female baby's mouths with ashes so they choked to death, or bury alive, something Mohammed is supposed to have stopped. I know infanticide was common under Mao's one-child policy, in fact I know someone who witnessed a (female of course) baby drowned in a tub of water in rural bumfuck China back in the 80s. First and last time I ever saw that guy cry. Now we live ina time where people get exercised about Plan B ffs and bizarrely idealise the past when abortion etc was banned. I dont think most of these people have the slightest clue how disposable babies and kids were in their idealized past.
Oh, and Marybeth Tinning? Wasn't she a crazy Munchie by Proxy or something? Or just an evil cow, I dunno.