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A newborn baby boy was found abandoned inside a hotel staff dormitory in South Pattaya on the morning of 10 October, prompting police and rescue teams to launch an urgent investigation to identify those responsible. The incident occurred at around 07.50, when Pol. Lt. Pakorn Prakobnun, deputy investigation officer at Pattaya City Police Station, received a report of an infant discovered at a staff accommodation building in Soi 18 South Pattaya Road. Rescue workers from the Sawang Boriboon Thammasathan Foundation were dispatched to the scene immediately.

 

The three-and-a-half-storey commercial building, converted into employee lodgings for a local hotel, contained the baby on a second-floor mezzanine walkway. The male infant, estimated to be only three to four hours old, was still alive and crying loudly when found. He was unclothed except for a light green shirt wrapped around his body and was lying on a white fertiliser sack. The umbilical cord remained attached, and blood stains were visible on his body. Rescue workers contacted Pattaya City Hospital, which sent medical staff to collect the baby for treatment. Initial assessments indicated that the baby was in good health and weighed approximately 2.3 kilograms.

 

A resident identified only as Ms. Noi, 56, a Tai Yai woman living in the building, told police she heard loud cries shortly before 07:00 and was alarmed because no residents had small children or were known to be pregnant. Following the sound, she reached the dark mezzanine corridor and used her phone’s flashlight to search, eventually finding the newborn lying on the floor. Shocked by the discovery, she immediately called for rescue assistance.

 

Investigators from Pattaya City Police are reviewing CCTV footage from the area to trace the individual or individuals who abandoned the child. Officers believe the baby was likely brought from outside and left secretly at the dormitory. Authorities have vowed to locate the parents responsible for the act and pursue legal action under child protection and abandonment laws.

 

The baby remains under hospital care, while social welfare officials are expected to be contacted to ensure his continued protection and welfare once he is discharged. Police have appealed to the public for any information that may assist in identifying the people involved in this case.

 

 

CCTV from the area, before the baby was found, showing a woman leaving the building.

 

Key Takeaways

 

• A newborn baby boy, estimated to be 3–4 hours old, was found abandoned in a Pattaya hotel staff dormitory.

• Rescue teams rushed the infant to Pattaya City Hospital, where he was reported healthy and stable.

• Police are analysing CCTV footage to identify and prosecute the person or persons responsible.

 

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  Adapted by Asean Now from SiamChon 2025-10-11

 

 

 

 

9 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

for the act and pursue legal action under child protection and abandonment laws.

Is this a joke, the mother needs care not an arrest !

I cannot begin to imagine what has led to this mother doing what she did.  She absolutely needs care and attention until all the background is fully understood.

10 minutes ago, brian69 said:

Is this a joke, the mother needs care not an arrest !

Maybe read the Thai penal code, reference abandoning a baby or a child unable to care for themselves, is a criminal offence.
 

The primary relevant sections Sections 306 and 308

 

 

Presumably the camera recording a woman leaving would have also captured someone carrying a baby into the dormitory.

At least the baby wasn't left in a bin or a fertiliser sack, dispensed with in a food blender, or had toilet cleaner poured down their throat, as have previously been some of the cases here, in the good old land of smiles.

 

Bless that little baby.

 

Let us hope the kid gets a family that will love him

A rotten start to life, but hoping it gets better little one.

3 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

Maybe read the Thai penal code, reference abandoning a baby or a child unable to care for themselves, is a criminal offence.
 

The primary relevant sections Sections 306 and 308

 

 

But it doesn't make it right,stupid law 

The mother really needs support. 

 

If anything they should persue both parents.

 

The article says....  Authorities have vowed to locate the parents, this is rare in Thailand 

 

It takes 2 to make a baby 

2 hours ago, emptypockets said:

Presumably the camera recording a woman leaving would have also captured someone carrying a baby into the dormitory.

Unless, of course the woman was still pregnant and was still carrying the baby and the baby was actually born in the dormitory, and then the woman walked out leaving the baby behind.

 

What ever way you look at it, the woman NEEDS care and attention. preferably at a hospital. What she does NOT need is to be arrested and locked up.

13 minutes ago, billd766 said:

Unless, of course the woman was still pregnant and was still carrying the baby and the baby was actually born in the dormitory, and then the woman walked out leaving the baby behind.

 

What ever way you look at it, the woman NEEDS care and attention. preferably at a hospital. What she does NOT need is to be arrested and locked up.

Quite a possible scenario.

She would have been in there quite a while as the report said the baby was estimated to be 3 or 4 hours old, so maybe unlikely it was her baby.

Childbirth can be quite a noisy process from my experience, other people would have heard some commotion.

I think the baby was born elsewhere and taken to the dormitory.

Wouldn't be surprised if the woman in the video was the baby's mums mother or aunt.

Just my speculation.

Agree the mum needs some sort of assistance.

3 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

Maybe read the Thai penal code, reference abandoning a baby or a child unable to care for themselves, is a criminal offence.
 

The primary relevant sections Sections 306 and 308

 

 

That may be the code but it doesn't make it right.

Another bar girl who did not use proper protection ?

17 minutes ago, Sigmund said:

Another bar girl who did not use proper protection ?

Or a young naive teenager?

Happens in every culture and country.

Or the father could be an idiot who shagged a bar girl without him using protection.

1 hour ago, Thingamabob said:

A rotten start to life, but hoping it gets better little one.

Jesus!

A nephew of mine was a hopeless drug addict, his girl friend was exactly the same. They met at some detox program after they were both released from a Thai prison. They produced 2 kids and several years later he died of an over dose. She done a runner and left the 2 kids behind and has never returned. It may come to some as though it's a tragedy but actually it's the best thing that could've happened to the 2 kids. My sister in law, their granny has taken total responsibility for them. She has a UK husband and he treats the 2 kids as if they were his own. The stories I get back from my wife who's from the back blocks of Korat suggests who isn't on ya ba up there. The scary part of this that it's so cheap now even school kids are buying it.

3 hours ago, Mason45 said:

A nephew of mine was a hopeless drug addict, his girl friend was exactly the same. They met at some detox program after they were both released from a Thai prison. They produced 2 kids and several years later he died of an over dose. She done a runner and left the 2 kids behind and has never returned. It may come to some as though it's a tragedy but actually it's the best thing that could've happened to the 2 kids. My sister in law, their granny has taken total responsibility for them. She has a UK husband and he treats the 2 kids as if they were his own. The stories I get back from my wife who's from the back blocks of Korat suggests who isn't on ya ba up there. The scary part of this that it's so cheap now even school kids are buying it.

It's great to hear some real life stories not the same old bar stool jibberish that gets repeated so often that it becomes fact amongst the bar dwellers and the overseas mongers who visited Thailand ten years ago but see themselves as the font of all knowledge simply because they subscribe to a  forum.

17 hours ago, Watawattana said:

I cannot begin to imagine what has led to this mother doing what she did.  She absolutely needs care and attention until all the background is fully understood.

Obviously she must have been under severe stress maybe family or she has a boyfriend that is not the father, whatever it is she needs help, 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13 hours ago, Peter Crow said:

Jesus!

Hopefully.

18 hours ago, Pla Simon said:

At least the baby wasn't left in a bin or a fertiliser sack

 

On 10/11/2025 at 3:39 AM, Georgealbert said:

was lying on a white fertiliser sack.

 

20 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

Maybe read the Thai penal code, reference abandoning a baby or a child unable to care for themselves, is a criminal offence.
 

The primary relevant sections Sections 306 and 308

 

 

Yes quite right, a criminal offense.

But philosophically, this child is a lucky one. He was allowed to be born.

In many other countries, he would have been discarded in the the process of abortion.

Just so many ways to prevent birth. Many, including birth control pills. To a point of some views of luck, for the ones who made it....

Perhaps the poster was thinking about the sadness related to extremes where some women, revert to child abandonment.

 

But this woman who abandoned her newly born child, is just not lucky, but in another dimension... Life is not fair..

 

But those who make laws, they are part of the lucky ones, same as this newly born child. Same luck.

 

20 hours ago, Watawattana said:

I cannot begin to imagine what has led to this mother doing what she did.  She absolutely needs care and attention until all the background is fully understood.

Imagine, if you will, having no skills/education, no income, no prospects for a future, father long gone, family unable or unwilling to help...... that will lead you to what she did. Abortion still illegal....