Meaning of させたとして


In [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PjMB2mZ390) news I heard this
sentence:

> 福岡県飯塚市のディスカウントストアで食料品を万引きし、店の警備員にけがを **させたとして** 隣接する嘉麻市の職員の男が逮捕されました。

I can understand the meaning form the context, but the part させたとして isn't that
clear to me: I know させる is causative, which means that the recipient is forced
or allowed to do an action; and I know として either as "as, in the capacity of",
or as て-form of とする, "to try/decide to do" (and
[several](https://jisho.org/word/%E3%81%A8%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B) other meaning.

In that sentence... I'm not so sure about its meaning. The sentence means that
the suspect injured the guard, but why the causative? Because she is forced to
take on an injury? And why として?




Possibly a difficulty might be that there is no real equivalent of けがをする in
English.

警備員 **が** けがをする means _A guard got injured_. But note that in Japanese, it is
an ordinary active sentence. On the other hand 警備員 **に** けがをさせる means
_(Someone) injured a guard_. So to think in the opposite direction, _injure_
(or _hurt_ ) only translates as a causative けがをさせる in Japanese (at least when
it involves physical injury).

として here only means _as_.

Overall, the sentence would translate: _A man was arrested as having
shoplifted in a discount store... and injured a guard of the shop_.




Possibly a difficulty might be that there is no real equivalent of けがをする in
English.

警備員 **が** けがをする means _A guard got injured_. But note that in Japanese, it is
an ordinary active sentence. On the other hand 警備員 **に** けがをさせる means
_(Someone) injured a guard_. So to think in the opposite direction, _injure_
(or _hurt_ ) only translates as a causative けがをさせる in Japanese (at least when
it involves physical injury).

として here only means _as_.

Overall, the sentence would translate: _A man was arrested as having
shoplifted in a discount store... and injured a guard of the shop_.

