Thread: Going to school in Thailand

Foetus found in campus bin

An aborted foetus was found yesterday in a garbage bin at Kasetsart University's Bang Khen campus.

A garbage collector found the male foetus, which was about four months old, in the bin by the volunteers' club for rural development.

Police believe the mother may have been a teenager with an unwanted pregnancy. But teachers quickly dismissed the possibility a student might have been responsible. Executives of the state university said they didn't think the mother was a student, because the bin was in an open area.

"The bin is on the footpath, so anyone could have left the box there," said deputy rector Charnchai Mahasawat.
"Last year there were some dead foetuses found on campus but the police never solved the case," he said. The university was now closed, with classes and dormitories yet to open. Both the university and police were investigating, he said.

Video surveillance to help

The Vocational Education Commission yesterday warned technical students they would soon have to pay for brawling with rivals.





"I don't mean to dare anyone. But if you are a troublemaker, you will surely be arrested and face legal action," secretary-general Weerasak Wongsombat said.

A new IT security system will record juvenile offenders on surveillance cameras and send a visual alert to a centre at the Vocational Education Commission office and police will go after them, he said.

"The cameras work around the clock," he said.

The signal will also be relayed to educational institutions, police stations and other police units. Weerasak said his office had joined hands with authorities such as the National Police Office and its Juvenile Aid Subdivision in the planned launch of the IT security project.

"We have already identified 17 places where student fights tend to break out," he said. The monitoring system would go online in the second semester with six cameras.

"But soon, cameras will be installed at all risky spots and we will also have 10 more mobile cameras," he said.

The system would also play a role in traffic work and public safety.

Weerasak said if his office had a bigger budget, it would encourage colleges under its
wing to adopt the security technology. Lt-Colonel Weerawit Wajjanapukka, deputy superintendent of the Juvenile Aid Subdivision, said the technology could help because if gang leaders were caught, the clashes would die down.

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