Father of balcony fall kids goes to police claiming wife's negligence and obstruction

 

 

The Swiss father of the four mixed race children who fell from a fourth floor Ramkhamhaeng balcony has gone to police to press for charges of negligence causing an accident against the mother of his children.

 

Rattikan Praikaikaew had gone out to work at night when the children fell from a platform used to drain plates. Alex Borel, 5, died at the scene. His siblings aged 11, 10 and 7 were seriously injured and remain in hospital.

 

The children's Thai grandparents had put them to bed then gone to another flat on the ground floor to sleep.

 

Rattikan and Marcel Borel are estranged and have lived apart for about four years.  

 

Yesterday Mrl Borel went with his lawyer to say that his wife had been negligent. He also said that he had been obstructed from seeing his children at the hospital despite agreements made.

 

The claims were received by Hua Mark deputy station chief Pol Lt Col Noppaporn Srisuchart.

 

It was not clear why he had made these claims of obstruction as he has been reported as visiting his children in the hospital and was said to be on his way there after seeing the police, according to Sanook.

 

Sanook also said that he is considering going to Paveena Hongsakul who helps in cases of injustice concerning children and women. Paveena is a high profile figure who runs an assistance foundation under her name. 

 

He told the police that his three surviving children would not be safe in going home to their mother as he feared that another accident may well occur. 

 

He urged his wife to stop fighting and consider the future of the children over personal issues. They can settle their differences later in court when they have fully recovered, he said. 

 

Claims have also been made online on a mystery Facebook account in the name of "Thidarat Michael Mathew" that Mr Borel was using donations for himself.

 

He denied this and said that the poster must stop spreading falsehoods or he would prosecute them for defamation.

 

Thaivisa notes that several people on the "Marcy Borel" Facebook page have been conjecturing as to who the mystery poster was and what was their motive. 

 

Mr Borel has himself claimed that his ex and her parents have been using donations intended for the children for their own use.

 

Source: https://www.dailynews.co.th/crime/644015 & https://www.sanook.com/news/6460926/

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-5-17

A very sad story. I just hope it will turn out well for the children that survived. They are the ones that are hurting the most. Sometimes oyu just wish that grown up parents could set aside their differences when it comes to their children and at least give them the focus and attention they need to grow upp to be caring and loving people in society.

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Claims have also been made online on a mystery Facebook account in the name of "Thidarat Michael Mathew" that Mr Borel was using donations for himself.

But he claimed he would make all outlays transparent

He must have these documents, if he's willing to go down the defamation route 

Balcony railing laws are non existant here. In my country they must be minimum of 1200 high and have no horizontal members except the top rail and a bottom rail maximum of 100 above balcony level. the vertical members, if used, must be no further apart than 150mm. The best alternative and frequently used is a laminated and armour glass solution. This adds an insignificent cost to the project. These laws prevent any small child from accidently falling.

14 minutes ago, tigermoth said:

Balcony railing laws are non existant here. In my country they must be minimum of 1200 high and have no horizontal members except the top rail and a bottom rail maximum of 100 above balcony level. the vertical members, if used, must be no further apart than 150mm. The best alternative and frequently used is a laminated and armour glass solution. This adds an insignificent cost to the project. These laws prevent any small child from accidently falling.

Balcony rails was not the issue in this case.

He will get nowhere on negligence charge on the mother. In the US and I am sure most EU countries if the mother went to work and left the children with a babysitter or gran parents to be taken care of that would not be considered negligente care.  If an accident occured the police /investigators or court would determine if the babbysitter/ gran parents were negligent or just an unfortunate accident. The mother would face no charges in any scenario. Think his lawyer is giving him bad dvice or maybe trying to increase her charges.

 

If he has a court order giving him custody of the kids why has he never shown it to media or police? Think a lot of BS going on and 2 hateful people trying to screw each other over.