Boy 'not Kidnapped' In Thailand

[Waverider]

My appologies if this is old news, just saw it myself.

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[mffun]

My appologies if this is old news, just saw it myself.

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[The_Moog]

The root of this story is a UK paranoia of paedophiles. Journalists know they can get a story if they try to raise the possibility of paedophile involvement.

Not long ago, as a result of a UK newspaper's story, a mob went after a 'paediatrician' (a Doctor specializing in child medicine), as the mob was of low IQ and got confused by her job title.

[LivinLOS]

The last years of the priest who devoted his entire life to child orphanages in Pattaya and BKK were also made painfull by a false smear in UK press.

[george]

Police continue search for missing Swedish boy

BANGKOK: -- Thai and Swedish police continued yesterday to search for a Swedish-American boy thought to have been abducted from a hospital in Thailand's southern resort province of Phang-nga two days after the tsunamis struck, despite official denials that the boy had been kidnapped.

Pol. Lt. Gen. Preecha Klaewthanong, who is working with Swedish police to determine the whereabouts of Kristian Walker, told reporters yesterday that photographs of the 12 year-old boy had been distributed to all immigration police checkpoints to determine whether or not he might have been smuggled abroad.

Although Pol. Lt. Gen. Preecha said that neither the Thai nor the Swedish police were yet convinced that Kristian had been abducted by a human trafficking gang, senior Ministry of Public Health officials earlier downplayed the possibility of a kidnapping, saying that all Thai hospitals employed strict safeguards on the discharge of minors, and that the abduction rumours were due to a ‘misunderstanding’ by hospital staff.

The Swedish police have placed a photograph of Kristian, who is said to have disappeared from Phang-nga’s Thai Muang Hospital, on the Interpol database.

Yesterday Dr. Phisit Yongyut, director of Thai Muang Hospital, conceded to reporters that kidnapping was a possibility, describing the first couple of days after the tsunamis as a time of chaos and confusion for hospital staff.

Admitting that a boy similar in appearance to Kristian had been treated at the hospital, he said that the boy had gone away with a German man at around 01.00hrs on 27 December.

Police in Phuket also launched an urgent inquiry yesterday into the fate of a three year-old Finnish boy who is thought to have survived the disaster.

The toddler was staying in the Phang-nga resort of Khao Lak when the tsunamis struck.

Both his parents are still missing, but photographs have appeared showing the young boy being held by a Thai soldier, indicating that he is almost certainly still alive.

Pol. Col. Kokiart Wongworachat, deputy commander of Phuket provincial police force, said yesterday that an urgent investigation into the case was now underway.

--TNA 2005-01-06