Daughter forced to tell father he'd lost his wife and three daughters
<p><span>A heartbroken big sister and step daughter to a slain family was forced to tell her father of the horrific circumstances.</span><br /><br /><span>Shana Kikuchi’s step mother and three sisters perished in a fire on January 10, at the family’s Glen Waverley home, in Melbourne’s southeast.</span><br /><br /><span>The tragedy took the lives of Kaoru Okana, and her three little girls – Ako, Uta and Enna.</span><br /><br /><span>Shana’s father Hiroyuki Kikuchi, 50, had been dragged away from the fire by firefighters and was taken to hospital in a sedated coma.</span><br /><br /><span>Victoria Police Detective Senior Sergeant Neville Major has horrifically revealed their bodies were found huddled together in the debris of the bathroom.</span><br /><br /><span>Ms Kikuchi said her stepmother was a great friend of hers and was born to be a mum to her three little sisters.</span></p>
<p><img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7839575/kituchi.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/c3c55165a38940929c9f282c9edeae75" /><br /><br /><span>“I will love you to the end of time,” Ms Kikuchi wrote.</span><br /><br /><span>Ako, 8, was described as a hard worker and always aiming to make her parents proud by always studying and playing the piano.</span><br /><br /><span>Five-year-old Uta was the cheeky middle child who loved to give her family a laugh and wasn’t afraid to verse her step-brother Jake in video games.</span><br /><br /><span>The youngest daughter was three-year-old Enna, who was described as “the littlest with the biggest personality”</span><br /><br /><span>“There was not a day you would see her without drawings on her arms. She was a real artist!”</span><br /><br /><span>Ms Kikuchi said telling her father what had happened is a moment she will never forget.</span><br /><br /><span>“My dad has lost everything, his beloved children, his wife Kaoru, their two cats Nixon and Tsuppy, and their home and everything in it,” she wrote on a GoFundMe page.</span><br /><br /><span>“On top of all this, his business was decimated this year from Covid-19 and the financial hardship it caused, leaving them with nothing.</span><br /><br /><span>“When I saw him in hospital after the fire, he literally had no clothes on his back – absolutely everything is gone.”</span><br /><br /><span>Ms Kikuchi is asking for donations in order to give her family a beautiful funeral, as well as trying to fly Kaoru’s parents from Japan to the ceremony.</span><br /><br /><span>The GoFundMe page since Thursday morning, has reached over $105,000 of its $150,000 goal.</span><br /><br /><span>The leftover money will help Hiroyuki get back on his feet, and put a roof over his head.</span><br /><br /><span>“Every little bit helps,” Ms Kikuchi wrote.</span></p>
