A 54-year-old woman in Japan was arrested for allegedly stripping her boyfriend bare and leaving him naked at night on a balcony, where he froze to death, police in Nagasaki confirmed on Friday.

As police official Masafumi Tanigawa said, the harrowing experience happened in February 2022. The woman allegedly asked her common-law husband, 49, to stand on their apartment's balcony naked and then locked him out.

“The next day, police rushed to the scene after an emergency call and found the victim nearly dead in a room,” Tanigawa stated. He later succumbed to hypothermia. Reports indicate that temperatures in the area had dropped to a low of 3.7 degrees Celsius (38.7°F) that night.

Further investigation showed a history of violence in the relationship. Authorities said the woman had previously attacked her partner with a knife, causing injuries to his nose that required two weeks to heal.

Despite the serious accusations, the woman has denied any wrongdoing. “I’ve done nothing,” she told investigators, according to Tanigawa.

Authorities have not explained why it took over two years to officially charge her. The case remains under investigation.

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