UONUMA, Niigata -- A 14-year-old girl who stabbed her father at their home in the early hours of Tuesday has been arrested for attempted murder, police said.

The second-year junior high school girl admitted to the allegations. "I stabbed him in a bid to murder him," she was quoted as telling investigators.

Police are questioning the girl, whose name is being withheld under the Juvenile Law, over the motives for her crime.

An official at the school she is enrolled in said she had expressed her dissatisfaction with being unable to meet her divorced mother. "I want to see my mother, but can't," she reported complained to school officials.

At about 1:15 a.m. on Tuesday, the girl stabbed her father in the living room of their home in Uonuma, according to local police. The victim suffered injuries that are expected to take a week to heal.

She has attended school for only a few days this school year, which began in April. (Mainichi)

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