Phuket Police Find Parents Of Abandoned Baby

[george]

Phuket Police find parents of abandoned baby

The baby with her Burmese parents at the camp inside

Supalai City Hill project in Ban Kuku.

PHUKET: -- A four-month-old baby girl who was abandoned by the side of the road earlier this week has been united with her parents, but the baby’s safety remains a concern for authorities.

The young baby was found outside a shop house on Palian Road in Ban Kuku, Rassada District just after 7pm on Wednesday by a local resident.

Crying loudly, the girl was wrapped in a blanket with a two milk bottles by her side.

The resident alerted Phuket City Police, who arrived at the scene shortly after.

The child was then handed over to the Phuket Shelter for Children and Families.

Shelter chief Jiranan Jiamjaroen said that after local Thai media reported the story the same day, a security guard from the Supulai City Hill project in Ban Kuku suspected the baby's parents were a young Burmese couple living on the project site where he worked.

The young couple he suspected had a baby about the same age as the one that mysteriously disappeared around the same time.

The security guard contacted the project developers, who in turn alerted the shelter at around noon on Thursday.

Just after 2pm, the young Burmese couple were brought by their boss to the shelter to identify the baby.

On arrival at the shelter, the 23 year-old-man and 20-year-old woman identified the baby girl as their own, but denied abandoning the child.

They claimed they left their baby girl with the woman’s sister, who has since vanished.

Mr Jiranan said his staff don’t believe the couple’s story.

“We are sure it was the parents who abandoned the child,” he said.

“The couple told us that the baby was born on the way to Vachira Hospital about four months ago. The couple delivered the baby themselves on the side of the road and never received a birth certificate, Mr Jiranan said.

The couple were brought to Phuket Municipality offices to obtain a birth certificate for the child on Wednesday afternoon, accompanied by Mr Jiranan and police officers.

The couple were then escorted to Phuket City Police Station where their photos were taken, along with several of the baby. The police also made copies of the new birth certificate.

Police said they would be keeping a close eye on the young family.

Officers escorted the family back to their work camp at 7pm on Thursday, and donated milk, diapers and a new baby mattress.

The couple told police they would not abandon the baby again, but that they had very little money to support their child.

-- Phuket Gazette 2010-01-09

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[JetsetBkk]

There but for the grace of God...

[MisterMan]

OMG I am speechless! OMG. Give that woman some birth control or that man a vasectomy fast!

Such a serious crime in the real world but not here. What is the solution??

however I will say this:

I Have a friend who wants to adopt and they went to an orphanage in Bangkok and it was building after building after building of unwanted children. So sad.

[krading]

Would they have dumped the child if it was a boy?

[sbk]

Wow, I mean, what is wrong with this couple , clearly living in a tin shack, earning probably around 100 baht a day (or hey, maybe they are lucky and actually earning minimum wage) who so foolishly got pregnant (I agree, whats wrong with this guy, why didn't he just go have a vasectomy?) and <deleted>, gave birth on the side of the road, I mean who does that? Only irresponsible people. Certainly not poverty stricken, most likely illegal aliens afraid of being deported, losing their jobs and the tin shed they call home.

[fallingoffthemap]

I'd be happy to donate some baht to this family, if someone could help out with how to do so?

[krading]

Send it to me and I'll make sure they get it.

[WarpSpeed]

Wow, I mean, what is wrong with this couple , clearly living in a tin shack, earning probably around 100 baht a day (or hey, maybe they are lucky and actually earning minimum wage) who so foolishly got pregnant (I agree, whats wrong with this guy, why didn't he just go have a vasectomy?) and <deleted>, gave birth on the side of the road, I mean who does that? Only irresponsible people. Certainly not poverty stricken, most likely illegal aliens afraid of being deported, losing their jobs and the tin shed they call home.

Maybe there's a clue in there somewhere for your questions? Likely many.....Clues that is.....

<deleted>, gave birth on the side of the road, I mean who does that? Only irresponsible people.

Happens all the time even in the civilized world and this is far from that and even further removed for people like this, fortunately in the civilized world there is modern EMS services one can call..

Certainly not poverty stricken, most likely illegal aliens afraid of being deported, losing their jobs and the tin shed they call home.

How judgmentally gauche. While I don't condone the abandonment one must first walk in ones shoes before being so hostile, it's easy to make judgments having been blessed by birth to a civilized modern world and upbringing but these are young, uneducated Burmese from one of the most repressive and corrupt military juntas in Asia, so low on the food chain they are migrant workers in Thailand? Have some compassionate understanding..

It's tragic but again were not talking about a civilized family as we understand them and they actually probably thought in their hearts that their baby might have a better chance of a decent life if someone else here took them in and she would no longer have to endure their poverty..

As for judging them for being intimate that's just not realistic for all of the other reasons I mentioned..

In my mind what is tragic here is that with all of these red flags the Thai authorities still returned the child..Hopefully they will at least keep their promise and watch out for them..

Edited January 9, 2010 by WarpSpeed

[sbk]

Irony alert warp, irony.

[WarpSpeed]

what Irony? where is there irony in my post? please enlighten me?

[sbk]

my post was clearly a sad attempt at irony in response to previous posts.

[JetsetBkk]

Would they have dumped the child if it was a boy?

Strange comment - I thought girls were more "valuable" than boys.

[LivinginKata]

Abandoned baby family flee Phuket

FATE UNKNOWN: The infant girl, allegedly twice-abandoned, has disappeared from the workers' camp where her Burmese parents were employed.

RASSADA, PHUKET: A Burmese couple, recently reunited with their baby daughter after allegedly abandoning her twice, have fled their workers’ camp and are believed to be heading back to Burma.

Residents of the camp said the couple and their baby had vanished by Sunday morning.

For our previous report, click here.

The camp, comprised of corrugated tin shacks, houses workers at the Supalai City Hill project in Ban Kuku, northeast of Phuket City.

“Sae”, a young girl living in a shack near to that of the troubled family, said the man, 23, and woman, 20, lived at the camp for about three months.

The couple fought constantly and had abandoned their daughter once before, she said.

“Nobody liked it,” she said. “The camp boss wanted them to leave.”

A Thai supervisor at the workers’ camp, who preferred to remain anonymous, expressed shock at the thought that parents could abandon their own baby.

After the baby was found crying on a blanket outside a shophouse in Ban Kuku by a local resident on Wednesday, she was taken into care by the Phuket Shelter for Children and Families.

She was later returned to the parents, together with supplies to help them care for her.

Jiranan Jiamjaroen, head of the shelter, said nine children were abandoned in Phuket between October 2008 and September 2009.

The Burmese baby is the first to be abandoned since then, she said.

-- Phuket Gazette 2010-01-12

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