Nursery director near Tokyo arrested for putting urine in child's water bottle

A director at a nursery school near Tokyo has been arrested on suspicion of property damage for allegedly filling a boy's water bottle with urine, rendering it unusable, local police said Wednesday.

Toshifumi Miura, 24, has admitted to the charge, claiming he was "trying to scare" the boy into doing what he wanted at the school in Soka, Saitama Prefecture, the police said. It is unknown whether the boy drank from the water bottle.

The boy's mother, who returned home with him, noticed yellow liquid in the bottle and reported it to the police. They are investigating whether Miura may have targeted any other children for the same treatment.