Thread: Forensic team joins investigation of missing baby in Nakhon Pathom

Forensic science officers have joined Bang Luang district police in Nakhon Pathom in the investigation into the mysterious disappearance of an eight-month-old infant from the parents’ home on Sunday.


The parents were questioned again by Bang Luang police yesterday (Thursday) as to whether the boy was sold or given to other people, because they are suspicious that the parents might be responsible for the disappearance of their own child after searches have failed to find any trace of him.


An informed police source said that the police have the mobile phone of the mother and have discovered that her recent Line chat messages have been erased. They also looked into the couple’s bank accounts, but did not find any suspicious transactions, the source added.


Examination of CCTV footage along the main road, near the couple’s house in Bang Luang market in Bang Len district, found a man in a yellow shirt, riding in the back of a pickup truck, leaving the couple’s village on the morning that the baby was reported missing to the police.


Pol Maj-Gen Chakkrit Kruasunthornvanich, the Nakhon Pathom provincial police commander, said yesterday that police still cannot identify the man in the yellow shirt. Chakkrit visited the Bang Luang police station yesterday to follow up on progress in the case.


The commander told the media that the case is rather difficult because, so far, there has been only one witness, who claims to have seen the man in yellow shirt leaving the couple’s house.

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Thai police general unsure whether missing 8-month-old boy is still alive

Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn, the national deputy police chief, said today (Wednesday) that he does not know whether the 8-month-old missing baby from Nakhon Pathom is alive or not, but that he is quite sure that the parents know what happened.


He said police will try all means available to them to extract the truth from the couple, who were escorted today from their home in Bang Luang district in Nakhon Pathom Province to Bang Luang police station for further questioning.


Police said that they will conduct polygraph tests and the couple said that they are ready to cooperate to prove their innocence.


Pol Gen Surachate said investigators have several theories as to the motives behind the child’s disappearance, including assault, a fight between the couple or that the husband may not be the child’s father.


He also said that he has reprimanded the local police for failing to respond immediately when they were alerted to the baby’s disappearance from home on February 5th.


Searches for the infant at the family’s home and in surrounding areas have failed to turn up any clues. Forensics officers have not found any traces of foul play either.


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Strange goings-on

Husband in missing-baby case charged with procuring
Man offered teen wife to neighbour, who turns out to be biological father of 8-month-old child, say police
23 February 2023


NAKHON PATHOM: A 19-year-old man has been charged with pimping his 17-year-old wife to an older man, who turns out to be the biological father of the woman’s missing baby boy.

The charge of procuring laid against the young man known only as “Phut” is the latest twist in the case that has captivated the public since the child’s disappearance on Feb 5.

Police investigating the case on Wednesday arrested Phut for illegally procuring his wife to a neighbour, a man in his 50s, who was also arrested.

DNA tests revealed that the older man was the biological father of the missing baby boy. He is to be charged with statutory rape of a minor as the first sexual encounters with the young woman took place when she was 15, police said. Police said their investigation found that Phut had lured Nim into having sex with the older man identified as “Jae” in exchange for money.

The baby’s mother has insisted that she had nothing to do with the disappearance. However, police say there have been inconsistencies in her stories. Earlier, she said that she saw a man in a yellow shirt nter her home and take the baby, but later she admitted that the man did not exist.

Police have also noted that earlier on the day of the disappearance, the young couple had taken the baby to a clinic as he had a fever of 39C. The clinic advised them to take the boy to the hospital but they took him back home instead.

He said police will try all means available to them to extract the truth from the couple

Unless they are prepared to dust off the thumbscrews and battery clamps, i doubt if they will have any success in their quest for the truth.

He sounds like a thoroughly depraved piece of shit, as does his neighbour. Its hard to work out if the wife was coerced into this or was a willing participant in both the pimping and the disappearance.

Mother of missing baby says baby was dead, seeks public’s forgiveness

The teenage mother of the missing 8-month baby told the media that her son was dead when she decided to put the body into a canal near her home and offered a public apology.


Speaking to the media this afternoon, Nim asked for a chance to begin a new life, saying that she would like to go back to school. She also pleaded with the media and the police not to interfere with her family while she faces litigation for the offences she allegedly committed.


The teenage mother maintains that she didn’t lie about the location where she placed her dead baby into the canal, in Bang Len district of Nakhon Pathom Province, saying that she had lied before and she has learned her lesson.


She explained that she didn’t tell the truth about the missing baby at first because she was afraid of the police and she was interrogated by them as if she was an adult.


During the questioning, Nim admitted that she put the baby into the canal in panic, because he suffered a “seizure” after he accidentally fell from her arms while being bathed, adding that she did it alone.

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The untold story of the teenage mother of a missing baby

“I have never had a dream. Since childhood, I have never thought about what I will be when I grow up, but I have thought that I will get a job that will earn enough to feed me. I have never thought of becoming a doctor or a nurse. I have never thought that far. Just look at my house. I think I can never reach that point…….” [Nim, 24th Feb. 2023]


This statement is part of an interview the Mirror Foundation had with Nim, the 17-year-old mother of the missing 8-month-old baby boy, last Friday night. It has not been published until today, as the foundation thought that the situation on Friday made it inappropriate to do so.


The foundation hopes, however, that this interview will reveal to society another side of the incident and to enable an understanding of the background of a young girl, up to the point of becoming a criminal suspect.


The interview was conducted before she admitted to police that she had dumped her baby into a canal near her house and the “accident” that led to her committing the act, which has led to her being charged with manslaughter and with providing false statements to the police.


“We have never had a home of our own. I either lived in a rented house or a small house at a fish pond, where my father worked as a guard,” she said, adding that her family was poor throughout her childhood.


Life at school was also tough for her, as she talked about being bullied and treated as “non-existent” by her classmates. “I stayed alone and did everything alone. I never had a close friend but had some acquaintances with whom we went places together. We never talked about our personal lives and we never did anything together at school.”


She said that she felt that she did not want to go to school and, one day, her father asked her why. She replied she simply didn’t want to. “Deep in my heart, I wanted to go to school. My grades were not bad,” she told the Mirror Foundation.


Nim admitted that she has never hugged her mother because her mother had hearing problems and could not hear what she said. The relationship with her mother gradually deteriorated, until she became bed-ridden and she had to take her to a hospital for physiotherapy.


“…but I love my dad and I will tell him everything, but I don’t like him when he gets drunk and often quarrelled with mother. It has happened so often since I was young and I didn’t like it. I cried as I tried to ask Dad to stop, but he didn’t stop.”


Nim said that she cried so often that, by the time she grew up, she was used to the situation “but it hurts.” She said that her grandmother told her not to bother with them when they quarrelled because they would, eventually, stop.


“…but my heart still cried,” said Nim, adding that she finally resorted to reprimanding her father instead of crying. “I felt that home was not a happy place for me.”


She said that she felt happy when she was out of the home with Pud, her partner, adding that, when she decided to live with him, she was happy because he would give her advice and consolation.


She admitted that she didn’t intend to have the baby, but never thought of having an abortion, adding, however, that both of them didn’t have any money for the child’s delivery.


“We have never had anything, only that which was given to us. I have never had anything after leaving the hospital.”


Asked by the Mirror Foundation what she would do if the clock could be turned back, Nim said that there is nothing that can be rectified now. “Today, I feel that I have nobody, nobody at all,” she said.


Nim confessed to the police, after over 3 weeks of questioning, that she put the baby into a canal near her home, in panic, after the boy accidentally fell from the arms onto the floor during a bath and suffered a seizure.


The detail of the incident remains unknown to the public. The Central Juvenile and Family Court in Nakhon Pathom Province has released Nim on bail, with a surety of 10,000 Baht on the condition that she remains in the care of her parents.


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Thai police divers search canal for missing baby without success

Police divers continued their search in a canal for the third consecutive day today (Wednesday) for the missing 8-month-old baby who was disposed of there, according to his teenage mother. No trace of the infant was found.


Ten air tanks were prepared for the divers, each of whom took turns in the murky water for about 30 minutes, said Pol Col Suthee Wannasoot, superintendent of Bang Luang police station in Bang Len district of Nakhon Pathom province.


A diver admitted that the visibility underwater is very poor and that they had to use their sense of touch, adding that there are many submerged obstacles below the surface.


Meanwhile, police have decided to postpone a plan to throw a dead pig into the canal, to simulate the teenage mother’s claimed act of putting the baby into the waterway, at the recommendation of officials of the Royal Irrigation Department.


The officials said they will make calculations of the current speed, volume of water in the canal and the amount of water hyacinth first, to determine the whereabouts of the baby, if he was actually disposed of as claimed.


The teenage mother, Nim, has been charged with manslaughter, concealing or destroying a body and giving false statements to the police. She is currently remanded on bail by the Juvenile and Family Court of Nakhon Pathom province.

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Criminologists doubt teenage mother’s claim that she put her baby in a canal

Two Thai criminologists say they doubt the claim by the teenage mother of the missing 8-month-old boy, who claims to have disposed of her child in a canal near home in Nakhon Pathom province.


Dr. Trynh Phoraksa, a lecturer in criminology at the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology at Mahidol University, told Thai PBS that he doubts Nim’s claim because of her background of domestic violence and bullying since childhood, which is the environment that could force her to become a habitual liar for her own survival, to avoid being bullied or assaulted.


From her interview with the Mirror Foundation, he explained that the surroundings in which Nim has been living since childhood, the poverty and the fact that she was often bullied at school, her loneliness and without anyone to depend on or trust were the main factors behind her suspicious statement.


Regarding the manslaughter charge, filed against her by the police, Dr. Trynh noted that there is no evidence to substantiate her claim that the baby died accidentally after a fall from her arms while being bathed.


He said the police should not dismiss other options, as they have not found the baby yet and cannot confirm if he is still alive or not, or the charge of concealing a body, which is yet to be proven with eyewitness accounts and forensic evidence.


Another criminologist, Associate Professor Dr. Krisanaphong Poothakool, assistant rector of Rangsit University, said that he detected something suspicious in Nim’s initial story that the baby had been taken away from her by a man wearing a yellow shirt, which she then changed to the story of the accidental fall.


He said that he is not sure that her alleged confession can be trusted, given the violence in her background since childhood. Then he cited the case of “Ice Heep Lek”, an alleged serial killer, who was accused of torturing and killing several women and putting them in iron boxes to conceal the crime.


Ice Heep Lek, real name Apichai, also had a violent upbringing. His father was accused of killing and dismembering a young girl and was shot dead after he was released from prison by a gunman, allegedly hired by his mother who fled the country.


Asked whether Nim could turn over a new leaf, Krisanaphong said it depends on “how much a white cloth is tainted; if it is tainted with ink, it could be washed out but, if it is tainted with several layers of pollutants, then there is no way for the cloth to turn white again.”


The teenage mother has asked for forgiveness, hoping that she will be given a chance to start a new life and return to school.

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Court orders release of teenage mother who dumped baby in river

The Juvenile and Family Court in Thailand’s Nakhon Pathom province today (Monday) ordered the release of the teenage mother who dumped the body of her 8-month-old baby into the Tha Chin River in February, after the public prosecutor failed to indict her within the 90-day limit.


The court also ordered the return of 9,000-baht surety, put up by the Win Win Foundation as bail for the 17-year-old mother.


Accompanied by an official from the foundation, the teenage mother appeared before the court today as scheduled, to hear the decision from the public prosecutor.


The prosecutor failed to proceed with the case to court within the deadline because he had instructed the police to investigate five additional issues and the police were unable to finish the probe until this coming Friday. The prosecutor will decide on July 25th whether to indict the teenage mother.


As such, the court ordered the release of the suspect and the return of the bail to the foundation.


The case hit the headlines on February 5th, when the baby was reported missing from its home in Bang Len district, initially thought to be an abduction. An extensive search within a five kilometre radius of the baby’s house, involving police, volunteers, sniffer dogs and underwater drones, was launched on land, in a canal and the in Tha Chin River, but there was sign of the missing baby.


Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn, the deputy national chief, who oversaw the investigation, suspected that the teenage mother might have told the police whole the truth about her missing baby.


After intense interrogation, she finally admitted that she accidentally caused the baby to fall onto the floor in the house and that the child might have died in the fall. Fearing legal action, she dumped the body into the river.


In an interview with the Mirror Foundation, the teenage mother said that she had never dreamed about what she would be when she grew up, adding that her family was poor and had to live in a rented house on a fish farm. She said she never had a close friend and she was bullied at school.


“I lived alone, did everything alone. I didn’t feel I wanted to go to school. Father asked me one day why I didn’t go to school and I told him that I didn’t want to go any more. Deep down in my heart, though, I wanted to study and my grades were not bad,” according to an extract from her interview with the Mirror Foundation.

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