INFANT ABANDONED IN PATTAYA RESTAURANT

  Updated: [June 17, 2009 ] :: 14:06:51   [view 586] 

INFANT ABANDONED IN PATTAYA RESTAURANT

A baby boy was abandoned in a Pattaya restaurant, on 16 June 2009, after its female carer had told the restaurant owner she could no longer look after it. It transpired that the baby actually belonged to a bar girl who had been jailed recently. The child was taken into care.

At 9.00 pm, on 16 June, Mr. Supakorn Noja of the Child and Female Protection Squad was notified that a baby boy had been left at a restaurant near the Boonthaworn Furniture Building on Sukhumvit Road. Mr. Supakorn accompanied by Police Lieutenant Colonel Ormsin Sook Karnkah of the Children, Juvenile and Women Division Region 2 and their police team accordingly went to investigate.

At the Khun Lek Dungderm Restaurant, 340/7 Sukhumvit Road, Moo. 6, the officials found a 28-day-old baby boy, wrapped in a blue towel, placed on a table in the restaurant. Next to the baby were two bags, one brown and the other plastic, containing the baby’s birth certificate and the ID card of a Mrs. Chaninart Paepipat, [34] from Pratumthani Province, the woman who had abandoned the baby earlier that evening.

The birth certificate indicated that the baby had been born on 19 May, 2009 at Banglamung Hospital. The mother’s name was Miss Jutharat Heukkoontod, [25], a resident of Thachang, Chalermprakiet, Nakorn Ratchasima.

Police then questioned Miss Somrudee Kongpetsak, [37] the restaurant owner, who told them that Mrs. Chaninart, accompanied by a friend on a motorbike, had brought the baby into the restaurant earlier that evening as she was preparing to open. Miss. Somrudee related that Mrs. Chaninart had asked her if she could take over the care of the baby because she (Mrs. Chaninart) could no longer look after the baby adequately. Miss. Somrudee told the officials that she had refused, fearing the baby might have been stolen.

Seeking to reassure Miss Somrudee, Mrs. Chaninart had apparently told her that she, herself, was not the mother of the child. The real mother was a bar girl who had recently been arrested and put in jail on a theft charge. Miss Somrudee remained adamant, however, that she was in no position to take on the child, having children of her own. Despite her objections, Mrs. Chaninart then abandoned the baby and walked away, after which Miss Somrudee said she had reported the incident to the police

Police checked the veracity of Mrs. Chaninart’s claim about the child’s real mother being in jail and it proved to be true. In the interim, the baby has been taken into care by the Children, Juvenile and Women’s Division Region 2, Banglamung, with a female officer looking after it.

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