Forgotten child is latest to suffocate inside vehicle

[webfact]

Forgotten child is latest to suffocate inside vehicle

By KRITMET LOHO 
THE NATION 

 

 

THE TRAGEDY of a five-year-old child who died after being accidentally left in a locked pickup truck in sweltering heat at a northeastern school, is the eighth such fatality since 2012.
 

Kindergarten pupil Kabinta “Nong Yam” Kehphuang died by suffocation and hyperthermia after being left for eight hours in the front of a locked pick-up truck with all the windows shut in the hot sun. The incident has left her teacher, Phichitra Sudtana, 32, in shock, said Phupha Man district chief Phayung Lekdee. 

 

Police have charged the teacher with committing a reckless act resulting in another person's death.

 

Phichitra has since been bailed and admitted to Khon Kaen Rajanagarindra Psychiatric Hospital over the shock of Kabinta’s death, whom she reportedly “loved as her own child”, according to Tambon Huai Moung Adminsitrative Organisation clerk Pongsak Khamkuna. 

 

 

He said the kindergarten’s three teachers and one caretaker normally checked on pupils but none questioned her whereabouts or looked for her on Monday, until she was found dead.

 

Phichitra collected Kabinta from her home in the morning to take her to school along with five other children because the kindergarten’s bus was out of order. 

 

Kabinta sat in the front passenger seat while the other children sat in the bed of the truck along with a caretaker. However, Phichitra forgot the child was there when she arrived at the school and locked her truck at 7.30am. She assumed the girl would get out of the pickup by herself and got distracted after taking the five others pupils to class, according to deputy superintendent Pol Lt Colonel Sombat Wongwicha. 

 

Phichitra only remembered the child was still in the vehicle when she returned to it after classes finished at 3.30pm and found the girl’s lifeless body. 

 

The deceased girl’s grief-stricken mother Kalaya Noikaew, 57, went to the police to give them additional information yesterday.

 

The district chief has ordered 13 kindergartens in the area to strictly check on pupils at the beginning and end of classes to prevent a recurrence – but this is not the first time it’s happened. 

 

According to the Disease Control Department's Bureau of Non Communicable Diseases, 13 children aged between three and four, were left in locked vehicles for more than six hours on separate occasions between 2012 and 2016. Five cases involved a school bus and one a personal car.

 

The incidents led to six deaths while seven children were saved in time. 

 

From 2017 to 2018, the number of children left in locked vehicles, or accidentally locking themselves in, rose to 34 but all were saved in time, except for six-year-old Chanachai “Nong Kaka” Khongpol, who was left in a school truck in Ayuthaya in August 2017, and died of suffocation. 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30348136

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-06-20

[Get Real]

8 minutes ago, webfact said:

Police have charged the teacher with committing a reckless act resulting in another person's death.

Reckless?????

 

9 minutes ago, webfact said:

Phichitra has since been bailed and admitted to Khon Kaen Rajanagarindra Psychiatric Hospital over the shock of Kabinta’s death, whom she reportedly “loved as her own child”, according to Tambon Huai Moung Adminsitrative Organisation clerk Pongsak Khamkuna. 

I do not believe that. It´s impossible to forget a child that you reporetly love in such a degree. I guess she came to the right place, though. That it´s something seiously wrong, is definately clear.

 

9 minutes ago, webfact said:

Kabinta sat in the front passenger seat

Which only, even more, cement the impossibillity to forget.

[shaurene]

This is so sad, it made me cry. Sitting next to her in the car and she forgot the child, bull shit. 

The head teacher should take some Blair. 

It is so so easy if the head teacher had the brains.

1: There should be a daily chart. With the names of the children registered at the kinder garden.

2: First thing the teachers should be MADE TO DO. Is call each child's name out, check if the child is there and TICK THE CHILDS NAME OFF from the list. If the child is not there then they should know something is wrong. GOD, SO BLOODY EASY.

The teacher and the head teacher should be caked and banned from teaching. Have there pension taken  away and their FREE hospital perks  taken away.

i can't stop thinking about it, upsetting me so much. 

Been here in Khon Kaen 10 yrs married. My wife has 3 grand kids, 2  of them, girl 6 and a awsome boy just turned 3, they call me Papoa, I love them so much. I would die if anything like this happened.

i would be serving life in prison  I would have to take their life away. Just saying how I would feel

[rkidlad]

Words fail me. So utterly sad. And all because of complete stupidity and ignorance by people who are entrusted to take care of children. 

[Borzandy]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Police have charged the teacher with committing a reckless act resulting in another person's death.

A wai to the family's child would be appreciate.

[DM07]

"Kabinta sat in the front passenger seat while the other children sat in the bed of the truck along with a caretaker. However, Phichitra forgot the child was there when she arrived at the school and locked her truck at 7.30am. She assumed the girl would get out of the pickup by herself and got distracted after taking the five others pupils to class, according to deputy superintendent Pol Lt Colonel Sombat Wongwicha. "

 

So let me get this straight:

- she had to take care of the MASSIVE number of 6 children...

- she loved the dead girl, like she was her own child...

- she ASSUMED, the girl got out by herself...

- she was DISTRACTED, by the other 5 kids....

- she FORGOT the child was there (in the seat next to her)...

 

I will say one thing: I don't wish on anybody, what she is going through now!

One the other hand: 

WHAT 

THE

ACTUAL

$%#^?

[mushroomdave]

5 hours ago, Get Real said:

 

Edited June 20, 2018 by mushroomdave

[mushroomdave]

Police have charged the teacher with committing a reckless act resulting in another person's death.

Reckless?????

 

  3 hours ago, webfact said:

Phichitra has since been bailed and admitted to Khon Kaen Rajanagarindra Psychiatric Hospitalover the shock of Kabinta’s death, whom she reportedly “loved as her own child”, according to Tambon Huai Moung Adminsitrative Organisation clerk Pongsak Khamkuna. 

I do not believe that. It´s impossible to forget a child that you reporetly love in such a degree. I guess she came to the right place, though. That it´s something seiously wrong, is definately clear.

 

  3 hours ago, webfact said:

Kabinta sat in the front passenger seat

Which only, even more, cement the impossibillity to forget.

 

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Totally agree with you!!  And how are we to believe the quote “loved as her own child” when she didn't even notice throughout the school-day the child she (supposedly) loved like "her own child" ????  Unreal!!...Put her away!!!

Edited June 20, 2018 by mushroomdave

[jak2002003]

6 minutes ago, mushroomdave said:

Police have charged the teacher with committing a reckless act resulting in another person's death.

Reckless?????

 

  3 hours ago, webfact said:

Phichitra has since been bailed and admitted to Khon Kaen Rajanagarindra Psychiatric Hospitalover the shock of Kabinta’s death, whom she reportedly “loved as her own child”, according to Tambon Huai Moung Adminsitrative Organisation clerk Pongsak Khamkuna. 

I do not believe that. It´s impossible to forget a child that you reporetly love in such a degree. I guess she came to the right place, though. That it´s something seiously wrong, is definately clear.

 

  3 hours ago, webfact said:

Kabinta sat in the front passenger seat

Which only, even more, cement the impossibillity to forget.

 

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Totally agree with you!!  And how are we to believe the quote “loved as her own child” when she didn't even notice throughout the school-day the child she (supposedly) loved like "her own child" ????  Unreal!!...Put her away!!!

well I hope she does not actually have her own children... if her idea of loving them is like that!!!

[BEVUP]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

He said the kindergarten’s three teachers and one caretaker normally checked on pupils but none questioned her whereabouts or looked for her on Monday, until she was found dead.

This ones just unbelievable 

* So they all knew the bus was out of action. ( so arranged pick ups in their area )

* It's a small Kindergarten with 3 teachers & a Care Taker  ( 2 of these people were in the same vehicle )

* Also what about the kids in the vehicle ( maybe she knew some )

 

The Teachers certainly guilty, but one would of thought of the people in the back thinking (or maybe not )," why can't I ride in the front ". OH Kabinta's in there

 

This statement has got to be a joke

" Non questioned her whereabouts "

So no one even thought of saying to another that Kabinta isn't here today, That alone may have woken up a brain.

 

[fantom]

Perhaps slightly off topic, but it is not often realised how quickly temperatures can rise inside a vehicle once the engine is stopped and the aircon is off. Even leaving windows partly open has little effect.

In Australia there have been a number of deaths and injury including children, frail adults and pets due to hyperthermia. The following link gives a good background to the subject.

 

http://heatkills.org/how-hot/

[Cake Monster]

This is another very sad case of a young child losing their life due to the total neglect and down right incompetent behavior of so called " carers " of their charges.

So often there is a sad case such as this in Thailand, where an innocent young life is lost in this manner.

Its time to put those responsible in jail for a long period of time as this is manslaughter, with ZERO defence.

Sleep with the Angels little baby, and my sincere condolences to the parents.

[xtrnuno41]

It's a crying shame. However just  6 cases in 4 years, it shouldnt, but USA have 6 cases every month !!

It must be the radio waves penetrating our minds, so MOTHERS and others just forget the child in the car.

 

But hey, just saw yesterday a video, Thai mother with young child in front of her and a big bag on motorbike without helmets and then on speed, leaving the steering wheel for texting and seeing on her f**** smartphone !!! 

 

Red in the forum once about a grown guy, sexually abusing his 1 year old daughter !!!!

 

Like i said, it must be the radio waves penetrating our minds