Boy, 13, allowed to go home despite his father chaining him to a tree

 

Image: Daily News

 

A 13 year old boy has been sent back to his father by a childrens' home in the south of Thailand despite his father having chained him to a tree. 

 

The authorities have suggested he use a cloth to tie him up in future. 

 

Police and social workers had gone to an area of Satun near a rubber plantation where they found the boy chained to a tamarind tree. 

 

He was taken to Satun Hospital for a checkup then taken into care. 

 

But now it has been decided that the treatment of the boy did not constitute cruel or abusive treatment. 

 

The father is suffering from severe depression and has two naughty boys to look after, said the officials.

 

He had chained the boy up to stop him coming to harm while the father was resting. 

 

The authorities have suggested that he use a cloth to tie him up in future. 

 

Meanwhile help is on the way for the father who is trying to raise the boys in trying circumstances, reported Daily News.

 

Source: Daily News

 

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9 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

The authorities have suggested he use a cloth to tie him up in future. 

Neanderthals!

For a country that is always concerned about its reputation it is really good at shooting itself in the foot.As had been said many times you can't fix stupid.

1 hour ago, PatOngo said:

Neanderthals!

 

Ah, but caring ones.

 

So many things wrong with this story - the father's treatment of his kids, authorities offhand response and (in)action, the sort of excuses and "reasoning" provided.

 

6 hours ago, rooster59 said:

But now it has been decided that the treatment of the boy did not constitute cruel or abusive treatment. 

No, that would have to include a death !

Why not just teach the kid how to play a banjo ? Never have to look after him again ! Defend him maybe, but that,s just a common danger of banjo playing ????

I can't belieave what I just read !!! It's much more than Neandertalls ; it's insane and pure cruelty !!!

So back to the tree it is...

"He had chained the boy up to stop him coming to harm while the father was resting." 

The kids 13,I am sure he can look after himself while the father is sleeping !.

regards worgeordie

what a weird story and a weird solution.

me thinks there's more to this than has been told ….   is the boy mentally disturbed, is that why he has to chain him up to a tree ?  

 

I personally don't find this Harmful to the kid....... It just may be that the kid had 'buddies' a bit older that enjoyed indulging in drugs.... as in 'Yabaa'..... and the father really had 'Good intent'....

I just came back from 'upcountry - Issan' and learned that a 13 year old girl that I knew from the past couple years has married with a 'Thai boy' and is now dealing and using 'Yaa baa' drugs.... If the mother had chained her to a tree instead of just being 'permissive'.... It just might have been a 'different story' today........ SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT........

I think it is definitely psychologically harmful. How you feel if you were chained to a tree. Put yourself in his place. Would you feel the it was OK.

22 hours ago, rooster59 said:

The father is suffering from severe depression and has two naughty boys to look after, said the officials.

He had chained the boy up to stop him coming to harm while the father was resting. 

The authorities have suggested that he use a cloth to tie him up in future

And Thailand wants to become a hub for international medicine !!!!

ah thailand, with laws that make child abuse so easy

 

thai parents OWN the child and children cannot sue parents...

terrible terrible. If the dads so overwhelmed where are the buddhist population and monks to help? 

Well what about all our stabbings from teenage yufs in Lunnen? I would chain them all to a submarine.

I think we have one don't we?

what an idiocy!

cops are advising father to use cloth if he chains the boy again! 

if father cannot take of the boys, it is government's and cop's job to take them to a shelter or a safe home <deleted>!!!

what age we are living chaining the boys to a tree! 

Better check mums not riveted to the kitchen post ….. depressed reading about it ……. ahhhhh

A girl in Lumphun once chained me to a bed.

Luckily, she let me go again once the hour was up.

On 9/28/2019 at 3:41 PM, steven100 said:

what a weird story and a weird solution.

me thinks there's more to this than has been told ….   is the boy mentally disturbed, is that why he has to chain him up to a tree ?  

 

The OP explained it perfectly well.

Did he take the tree home ?

The tree at least would increase the average IQ in his household