Phuket Schoolgirl Vanishes After Facebook Session

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Phuket schoolgirl vanishes after Facebook session

Phuket Gazette

Mrs Samruay holds up a photo of her missing daughter at the office of the Phuket Reporters Club yesterday.

A photo from the Facebook account of Phuket schoolgirl Samudchaya “Nong Pin” Yanpunya, missing since Tuesday.

PHUKET: -- A distressed mother is appealing to the Phuket public for help in finding her 12-year-old daughter, who has been missing since Tuesday.

The mother, 43-year-old Samruay Saenthaweesuk, reported her daughter Samudchaya “Nong Pin” Yanpunya missing with the Phuket City Police on Tuesday.

Mrs Samruay also contacted the Phuket Reporters’ Club at Phuket Provincial Hall yesterday asking for help.

She told reporters that Nong Pin, in her last year of primary at the Ban Talaad Neua School in Phuket Town, was last seen on Tuesday leaving an internet cafe at the mouth of Soi Lor Rong in Phuket Town.

Nong Pin, who lives with her grandparents in Wichit because her parents are separated, is known to have skipped school that day and gone to an internet cafe “to do homework”.

Like many local youths, Nong Pin is an avid user of the social networking website Facebook, where she has over 250 friends and goes by the user name “Pinnee Smile”.

CCTV images of Nong Pin recorded on Tuesday showed her coming and going from the internet cafe several times. As she left the last time she was unaccompanied and did not appear to be under any stress or in a hurry.

However, her mother fears Nong Pin may have fallen victim to an internet stalker and is pleading to the public for help in locating her.

“I fear she may have been kidnapped,” she said.

After questioning friends and teachers at Nong Pin’s school proved fruitless, the desperate mum consulted two fortune tellers to see if they could divine here whereabouts supernaturally.

The first fortune teller, in the family’s original home of Prachuap Khiri Khan, sensed the schoolgirl was likely on holiday with a wealthy “tomboy” (lesbian with masculine traits) in Bangkok.

The second fortune teller, from Phuket, said he had a vision that Nong Pin was approached in the internet cafe by a man named "Dum", who serves as a ma song spirit medium at a local Chinese Shrine. She consented when Dum asked her to go with him, the fortune teller said.

As of 9:15am today Nong Pin had yet to contact friends or family.

Anyone with information that may help locate Nong Pin is urged to call Mrs Samruay at 087-2848380 or Phuket City Police Station at 076-212115.

Source: http://www.phuketgazette.net/archives/articles/2011/article11655.html

-- Phuket Gazette 2011-12-09

[LivinginKata]

An insensitive post (& a response) removed. Let's have some compassion for this family.

[Gers1873]

If it was your child would you be distraught enough to turn to 'non traditional' methods to locate your child?

Me I cannot answer and hope I never have to answer that question but I feel for the poor family.

Would TV members emailing this thread or the girls photo to friends help ? Ask them to forward to their friends --- you never know.

Hope she is found safe

[dopenhagen]

Now would be a good time to cash in on the big brother tax we are paying to Uncle Sam and companies like Facebook.

They should be able to provide law enforcement with the contents of her recent connections and activities.

The Internet provider and her cell carrier company also keeps a record of all her actions, and if governments and police can access it to determine crimes involving stolen cash, they should be able to have the same responsiveness when it comes to a young girl likely fallen victim of a scrupulous child trafficker or a sick weirdo.

Now, Phuket Police Dep., show the same diligence you do when pressing money from foreigners on motorbikes with helmets, find her before its too late.

Edited December 9, 2011 by LivinginKata
libel comment removed

[alexth]

Now would be a good time to cash in on the big brother tax we are paying to Uncle Sam and companies like Facebook.

Now, Phuket Police Dep., show the same diligence you do when pressing money from foreigners on motorbikes with helmets, find her before its too late.

Agree 100%

[englishinsiam]

Have posted her Pic to my Facebook wall and all the FB groups I belong to in Thailand.

Can you all do the same?

[TomTao]

There must be some way to see who she spoke to before she disappeared, what about parental access, or access through one of her friends accounts? Maybe the police could look at her friends list and see if there are any known offenders in there. Got to be something that can be done.

[theanimaster]

How do they know it had anything to do with Facebook??

[TomTao]

How do they know it had anything to do with Facebook??

It has been shown both here and overseas that sexual predators use facebook to groom victims, police in the U.K and in Australia have specialist teams that pose as children online to catch the predators.

[sfbandung]

An insensitive post (& a response) removed. Let's have some compassion for this family.

Hear, hear.

[stevenl]

How do they know it had anything to do with Facebook??

It has been shown both here and overseas that sexual predators use facebook to groom victims, police in the U.K and in Australia have specialist teams that pose as children online to catch the predators.

Sorry, but that does not answer the question at all. Your answer only says that Facebook may have something to do with her disappearence.

[robertson468]

How do they know it had anything to do with Facebook??

It has been shown both here and overseas that sexual predators use facebook to groom victims, police in the U.K and in Australia have specialist teams that pose as children online to catch the predators.

Sorry, but that does not answer the question at all. Your answer only says that Facebook may have something to do with her disappearence.

I fail to understand your logic. IF it MAY have an influence on the case, then surely it is worth investigating. Every POSSIBLE avenue should be investigated either until exhausted, or the Girl, hopefully is found safe? Unless I have missed some hidden message in your post?

[Card]

A fortune teller blames a local spirit medium? Sounds like some kind of dispute to me. Can't understand why Thais believe all that crap.

[stevenl]

How do they know it had anything to do with Facebook??

It has been shown both here and overseas that sexual predators use facebook to groom victims, police in the U.K and in Australia have specialist teams that pose as children online to catch the predators.

Sorry, but that does not answer the question at all. Your answer only says that Facebook may have something to do with her disappearence.

I fail to understand your logic. IF it MAY have an influence on the case, then surely it is worth investigating. Every POSSIBLE avenue should be investigated either until exhausted, or the Girl, hopefully is found safe? Unless I have missed some hidden message in your post?

Agree it should be investigated. But the question was 'how do they know it had anything to do with facebook. An answer like' facebook is well known to ...' does not answer that question.

[wxyz]

the mother should contact the local mafia

not the local fortune teller

[Nigel1500]

Wishing the very best outcome for the girl and her family.

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Phuket schoolgirl still missing

Phuket Gazette

One of several images of Phuket schoolgirl Samudchaya 'Nong Pin' Yanpunya on her Facebook page.

PHUKET: -- A schoolgirl who vanished after a Facebook session last Tuesday has yet to reappear, leaving the girl’s anguished mother to once again appeal to the public for help in locating her.

Samruay Saenthaweesuk, mother of 12-year-old Samudchaya “Nong Pin” Yanpunya, said she has not heard a word from her daughter since her mysterious disappearance after leaving an Internet cafe in Phuket Town last Tuesday.

“I haven’t heard anything, not from my daughter or anyone. After my daughter went missing, I went around to her friends’ houses and asked if anyone had found her, but I had no luck,” she told the Phuket Gazette today.

“After many people mentioned a social networking website called Facebook and raised the possibility that she might have gone away with someone she met online, I asked friends who were familiar with this website to help me learn to use it,” Mrs Samruay added.

Mrs Samruay is now able to monitor any activity on Nong Pin’s Facebook page, but thus far there has been none.

“She hasn’t come back to check her page at all,” said Mrs Samruay.

“This makes me even more worried about what went wrong and where she is at the moment,” she said.

Anyone with information that may help locate Nong Pin is urged to call Mrs Samruay at 087-2848380 or Phuket City Police Station at 076-212115.

Source: http://www.phuketgazette.net/archives/articles/2011/article11687.html

-- Phuket Gazette 2011-12-12