Two year old fights for her life after "falling down stairs"

[webfact]

Two year old fights for her life after "falling down stairs"

 

Picture: Daily News

 

BANGKOK: -- A two year old girl is fighting for her life after her mother said she fell down the stairs at their rented home.

 

But the child was also covered in bruises from previous injuries.

 

Doctors at Thanyaburi Hospital transferred "Joo" to Pathum Thani hospital in a coma after it was ascertained that she had blood on the brain.

 

Emergency surgery was carried out at Pathum Thani Hospital to relieve the swelling.

 

Doctors said the child's condition was critical and the next two weeks were vital to see if she would recover.

 

Child protection agency staff on the scene indicated that the child had been beaten in the past.

 

The 23 year old mother and father arrived later at the hospital. The mother said, in tears, that her daughter had fallen down the stairs on Wednesday evening.

 

She tried to alleviate a severe headache but it got worse and she took her to hospital. She said that the previous injuries were as a result of punishment for the child being "stubborn".

 

She is four months pregnant with the couple's second child.

 

The husband works as a messenger by day and serves in a restaurant at night and comes home at 2am each night, reported Daily News.

 

Source: Daily News

[steven100]

hmmmm ..... difficult to confirm if it was an accident or on purpose.

how does one actually know it was intentional or not  ?   but previous bruising indicates severe hitting the child .... 

[YetAnother]

28 minutes ago, webfact said:

Child protection agency staff on the scene indicated that the child had been beaten in the past.

something in thailand that works ? Quick: section 44 to criminalize it

[darksidedog]

44 minutes ago, webfact said:

She said that the previous injuries were as a result of punishment for the child being "stubborn".

A 2 year old? I don't know if there is sufficient evidence to file a criminal charge, but the child clearly needs to be removed from its parents for its own safety. What sort of person beats a baby so badly it is covered in bruises?

[Artisi]

4 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

A 2 year old? I don't know if there is sufficient evidence to file a criminal charge, but the child clearly needs to be removed from its parents for its own safety. What sort of person beats a baby so badly it is covered in bruises?

Enough evidence to draw some fairly conclusive ideas, remove the child while still alive and push both parents down a few flights of stairs - just for starters. 

[DM07]

Oh, but all Thais love their children so mut.....

[VocalNeal]

Which of course is why parents in a lot of countries put gates on the stairs and why baby walker thingies are illegal in Canada.

 

That is assuming that the child did actually fall down the stairs?

Edited September 8, 2017 by VocalNeal

[jerojero]

Poor girl, hope fully recovers. Nevertheless I'm sure there are hundreds or thousands of similar incidents that don't make the news. What's up with this special case?

 

 

[Artisi]

1 hour ago, jerojero said:

Poor girl, hope fully recovers. Nevertheless I'm sure there are hundreds or thousands of similar incidents that don't make the news. What's up with this special case?

 

 

Possibly the hundreds or thousands of similar instances don't have the overtone of child abuse or is it attempted murder?

[Artisi]

1 hour ago, DM07 said:

Oh, but all Thais love their children so mut.....

Could nearly be the hub of.. 

[Artisi]

2 hours ago, darksidedog said:

A 2 year old? I don't know if there is sufficient evidence to file a criminal charge, but the child clearly needs to be removed from its parents for its own safety. What sort of person beats a baby so badly it is covered in bruises?

What sort of person? I realise it's a rhetorical question and just like me you know the answer..?

[JAG]

Oh, but all Thais love their children so mut.....

What happened to this child is truly awful. A functioning police force would ensure that it did not go unpunished, and together with proper government agencies would go a long way to preventing it happening to others at risk.

It happens all over the world, and I suggest that Thais for the most part love and cherish their children as much as any other people on the planet.

The difference here is the incompetent police force and inadequate child protection systems...

[hansnl]

3 hours ago, JAG said:

What happened to this child is truly awful. A functioning police force would ensure that it did not go unpunished, and together with proper government agencies would go a long way to preventing it happening to others at risk.

It happens all over the world, and I suggest that Thais for the most part love and cherish their children as much as any other people on the planet.

The difference here is the incompetent police force and inadequate child protection systems...

The police would ensure?

The court maybe?

[FitnessHealthTravel]

Previously beaten...speechless!

[maximillian]

She said that the previous injuries were as a result of punishment for the child being "stubborn".

 

Well, then the stubborn child must be beaten. Speechless.

[RichardColeman]

Child beaten in the past due to stubbornness ? Lovely this Thai filth can blame it all on the child rather than bad parenting.

[Jonmarleesco]

5 hours ago, JAG said:

What happened to this child is truly awful. A functioning police force would ensure that it did not go unpunished, and together with proper government agencies would go a long way to preventing it happening to others at risk.

It happens all over the world, and I suggest that Thais for the most part love and cherish their children as much as any other people on the planet.

The difference here is the incompetent police force and inadequate child protection systems...

'... inadequate child protection systems...' The UK, for example, is no leading light when it comes  to protection agencies' competence; they've been found wanting on numerous occasions.

[JAG]

'... inadequate child protection systems...' The UK, for example, is no leading light when it comes  to protection agencies' competence; they've been found wanting on numerous occasions.

Yes.