Newborn Found in Trash Bag, Mother Confesses to Dumping Body

[Georgealbert]

 

 

A heartbreaking incident unfolded on the morning of October 16, as authorities discovered the body of a newborn male infant in a trash bag outside a row of rental apartments in the Phra Khanong district of Bangkok. The discovery was made by a garbage collector who immediately alerted the police.

 

At approximately 09:00 Pol. Lt. Pichai Sriamorn, investigator at Phra Khanong Police Station, received a report regarding the discovery of the infant’s body. A team of officials, including forensic experts, medical examiners from Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Medicine, and volunteers from the Ruamkatanyu Foundation, rushed to the scene.

 

 

The site of the discovery was outside a five-story building in Sukhumvit 95. Inside a fabric bag left near a blue trash bin, authorities found the body of a baby boy, estimated to have been born at around the seventh month of pregnancy. The infant had been wrapped in a black T-shirt, and other pieces of clothing were found covering the body. Officials believe the baby had been dead for about a day. A green garbage truck belonging to the Phra Khanong district office was nearby.

 

Marnop Ritthidej, a volunteer from the Ruamkatanyu Foundation, reported that a garbage collector had discovered the bag earlier in the morning. Upon emptying the trash, they were shocked to find the infant’s body and immediately contacted authorities.

 

Further investigation led police to identify the infant’s mother, a 21-year-old Myanmar national, Ms. Nan (surname withheld), who was living in the building. She was found weak and exhausted in her fifth-floor apartment. Ms. Nan admitted to being the child’s mother and explained that she had gone into labor prematurely the previous day at around 15:00 She stated that the baby was stillborn, and in a state of panic, she placed the body in the bag and discarded it in the trash.

 

Ms. Nan, along with her husband, are legal migrant worker employed in the construction industry. Both had proper work permits, which were presented to the authorities. They lived in the apartment and commuted to work daily.

 

Ms. Nan has been taken into custody at Phra Khanong Police Station for further investigation. Meanwhile, the infant’s body has been sent to Chulalongkorn Hospital for an autopsy.

 

Picture from responders.

-- 2024-10-17

 

 

[Gottfrid]

1 hour ago, Georgealbert said:

Ms. Nan admitted to being the child’s mother and explained that she had gone into labor prematurely the previous day at around 15:00 She stated that the baby was stillborn, and in a state of panic, she placed the body in the bag and discarded it in the trash.

The result of poor to no education at all. If you deliver a stillborn child, you call the hospital or police and everything is ok. Sadly people in this part of the world seem to have a habit of poor excuses and making it hard on themselves.

[Tropicalevo]

1 hour ago, Gottfrid said:

The result of poor to no education at all. If you deliver a stillborn child, you call the hospital or police and everything is ok. Sadly people in this part of the world seem to have a habit of poor excuses and making it hard on themselves.

Sorry, but you seem to have no idea how the poor here in Thailand live and survive.

Call a hospital - why? She would need money. Hospitals here are like vultures when it comes to dealing with foreigners.

Does she even have a phone?

 

Thailand is not the perfect world that you suggest that it should be.

[Gottfrid]

1 hour ago, Tropicalevo said:

Sorry, but you seem to have no idea how the poor here in Thailand live and survive.

Call a hospital - why? She would need money. Hospitals here are like vultures when it comes to dealing with foreigners.

Does she even have a phone?

 

Thailand is not the perfect world that you suggest that it should be.

Where do you get everything from? I have very good knowledge of how every class live in Thailand including migrant workers.

As a legal migrant worker in Thailand, if not legal should not be here, they have two options. Either the employer include payment for health care in the salary, or they have the option to pay 2100 baht per year for access to Thai healthcare. That regardless of any pre-existing health problems. So if do things right as a migrant, the hospitals can not act like vultures, but I guess you didn´t know that.

Most people have a phone or shared access to a phone. Never said Thailand is a perfect world, but people need to understand what they need to do to take care of themselves. Basically that amount is smaller than they send home every month, so one month they just have to pay the necessary and send home less.

[Captain Flack]

An off topic trolling rant has been removed.

[brianthainess]

1 hour ago, Gottfrid said:

Where do you get everything from? I have very good knowledge of how every class live in Thailand including migrant workers.

As a legal migrant worker in Thailand, if not legal should not be here, they have two options. Either the employer include payment for health care in the salary, or they have the option to pay 2100 baht per year for access to Thai healthcare. That regardless of any pre-existing health problems. So if do things right as a migrant, the hospitals can not act like vultures, but I guess you didn´t know that.

Most people have a phone or shared access to a phone. Never said Thailand is a perfect world, but people need to understand what they need to do to take care of themselves. Basically that amount is smaller than they send home every month, so one month they just have to pay the necessary and send home less.

I was also under the impression that a legal migrant worker could claim at the social security counter at local hospitals ??  

[connda]

Many families throughout Thailand would take in an infant.  Why kill it?  I'm dumbfounded.

 

[helloagain]

7 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

 

 

A heartbreaking incident unfolded on the morning of October 16, as authorities discovered the body of a newborn male infant in a trash bag outside a row of rental apartments in the Phra Khanong district of Bangkok. The discovery was made by a garbage collector who immediately alerted the police.

 

At approximately 09:00 Pol. Lt. Pichai Sriamorn, investigator at Phra Khanong Police Station, received a report regarding the discovery of the infant’s body. A team of officials, including forensic experts, medical examiners from Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Medicine, and volunteers from the Ruamkatanyu Foundation, rushed to the scene.

 

 

 

The site of the discovery was outside a five-story building in Sukhumvit 95. Inside a fabric bag left near a blue trash bin, authorities found the body of a baby boy, estimated to have been born at around the seventh month of pregnancy. The infant had been wrapped in a black T-shirt, and other pieces of clothing were found covering the body. Officials believe the baby had been dead for about a day. A green garbage truck belonging to the Phra Khanong district office was nearby.

 

Marnop Ritthidej, a volunteer from the Ruamkatanyu Foundation, reported that a garbage collector had discovered the bag earlier in the morning. Upon emptying the trash, they were shocked to find the infant’s body and immediately contacted authorities.

 

Further investigation led police to identify the infant’s mother, a 21-year-old Myanmar national, Ms. Nan (surname withheld), who was living in the building. She was found weak and exhausted in her fifth-floor apartment. Ms. Nan admitted to being the child’s mother and explained that she had gone into labor prematurely the previous day at around 15:00 She stated that the baby was stillborn, and in a state of panic, she placed the body in the bag and discarded it in the trash.

 

Ms. Nan, along with her husband, are legal migrant worker employed in the construction industry. Both had proper work permits, which were presented to the authorities. They lived in the apartment and commuted to work daily.

 

Ms. Nan has been taken into custody at Phra Khanong Police Station for further investigation. Meanwhile, the infant’s body has been sent to Chulalongkorn Hospital for an autopsy.

 

Picture from responders.

-- 2024-10-17

 

 

I have 2 things to say. Jail her until she can't have kids any more. Plus this is what happens when this country does not believe in abortions. 

[Nick Carter icp]

8 minutes ago, helloagain said:

I have 2 things to say. Jail her until she can't have kids any more. Plus this is what happens when this country does not believe in abortions. 

 

   Both ways the baby ends up dead , both ways it ends up in the rubbish bin , just the abortion costs money and dumping the baby in the rubbish is free 

[Cat Boy]

41 minutes ago, connda said:

Many families throughout Thailand would take in an infant.  Why kill it?  I'm dumbfounded.

 

The baby was still-born, read: dead upon birth. No one killed the baby. It was already dead.

 

Dumbfounded about what exactly?

 

The mother did nothing wrong (legally) and should not have been arrested 

[Gandtee]

59 minutes ago, connda said:

Many families throughout Thailand would take in an infant.  Why kill it?  I'm dumbfounded.

 

It wasn't killed. It was premature and maybe stillborn. Read the report. The autopsy should clarify. 

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

Ms. Nan admitted to being the child’s mother and explained that she had gone into labor prematurely the previous day at around 15:00 She stated that the baby was stillborn, and in a state of panic, she placed the body in the bag and discarded it in the trash.

Panic about what... call the services and report it.

[Thingamabob]

I appreciate the tragic and trying situation the mother faced, but throwing her baby's body into the trash can. Surely not right ?

[WDSmart]

Lock her up! 

[BritScot]

2 hours ago, connda said:

Many families throughout Thailand would take in an infant.  Why kill it?  I'm dumbfounded.

 

Really! Who said the baby was murdered? Second: "Dumbfounded" In your fantasy world, all orphanages in Thailand have now been closed as the benevolent people of Thailand have taken in all of the orphanages!! So nieve!

[tpbon]

5 hours ago, connda said:

Many families throughout Thailand would take in an infant.  Why kill it?  I'm dumbfounded.

 

Still born

[john donson]

7 hours ago, connda said:

Many families throughout Thailand would take in an infant.  Why kill it?  I'm dumbfounded.

 

 

STILL BORN

 

some people don't read half and shoot from the waste

 

 

[Gottfrid]

6 hours ago, Cat Boy said:

The baby was still-born, read: dead upon birth. No one killed the baby. It was already dead.

 

Dumbfounded about what exactly?

 

The mother did nothing wrong (legally) and should not have been arrested 

Did nothing wrong? I don´t think it´s legal to just throw a body in the trash.
 

7 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Both ways the baby ends up dead , both ways it ends up in the rubbish bin , just the abortion costs money and dumping the baby in the rubbish is free 

Yeah, but if you look at the moral aspect, it will tell another story.

[Liverpool Lou]

On 10/17/2024 at 12:14 PM, connda said:

Many families throughout Thailand would take in an infant.  Why kill it?  I'm dumbfounded.

Your comment is dumbfounding...no one killed anything, stillborns cannot be killed.  

[Liverpool Lou]

On 10/17/2024 at 12:18 PM, helloagain said:

I have 2 things to say. Jail her until she can't have kids any more. Plus this is what happens when this country does not believe in abortions. 

"Jail her until she can't have kids any more".

Why?  Stillbirth was her fault?

 

"Plus this is what happens when this country does not believe in abortions"

Nonsense.  Abortions are available here and the woman wasn't from this country,

[Liverpool Lou]

On 10/17/2024 at 12:57 PM, Cat Boy said:

The mother did nothing wrong (legally) and should not have been arrested 

Disposing of a body is illegal.  Everything she did, was illegal.

[Liverpool Lou]

On 10/17/2024 at 5:41 PM, tpbon said:

On 10/17/2024 at 12:14 PM, connda said:

Many families throughout Thailand would take in an infant.  Why kill it?  I'm dumbfounded.

 

Still born

No, it was stillborn.

[Liverpool Lou]

On 10/17/2024 at 7:59 PM, john donson said:

STILL BORN

 

some people don't read half and shoot from the waste

"STILL BORN".

Some people cannot read...it was not "still born", it was STILLBORN.

[NoDisplayName]

On 10/17/2024 at 12:57 PM, Cat Boy said:

The baby was still-born, read: dead upon birth. No one killed the baby. It was already dead.

 

Dumbfounded about what exactly?

 

The mother did nothing wrong (legally) and should not have been arrested 

 

Claims the "mother" who dumped her child in the garbage.

[CanadaSam]

On 10/17/2024 at 7:59 PM, john donson said:

some people don't read half and shoot from the waste

 

I like the pun.

[soi3eddie]

These stories are so sad on many levels. The dead infant, the mother, the father and society. This does not only happen in Thailand but likely, all countries, even the west such as; the UK, European countries, USA, Canada and Australia etc. 

 

What has not been reported here are the full circumstsances. Was the baby that of the husband, or another liaison, either consensual or otherwise? Being a foreigner in Thailand, she likely would not have access to affordable healthcare. Maybe there are many other factors involved. It is, a tragedy for sure. What crime against others have been committed? We don't know. For sure, this will likely leave a lasting effect on the mother (and possibly her husband).