Child Abduction / Murder - Pak Chong

[soihok]

My brother in law's, mother in law, lives at Pak Chong, my neice (his daughter) is living with her (going to school there). Last Monday she reported to my mother in law that four primary school aged girls were snatched from the street on their way to school. Whether or not this was witnessed or not I'm not sure.

Either yesterday or today, the same girls were found near to where they disappeared from but unfortunately all the girls were dead. It is apparent that they have had some of their internal organs removed.

Does anyone have any other information of this?

I don't know the girls or their families.

Sounds so shocking, the girls are being cremated in Pak Chong today.

Sorry not to be more specific on the actual location of this event.

[Mario2008]

Heard more of these horror storries. They tend to be not true.

[Tywais]

Heard more of these horror storries. They tend to be not true.

Also heard of these over the years. Usually it's a van driving around and randomly kidnapping kids.

[Mario2008]

We even were supposed to have one driving in our area a couple of years ago.

With one of the teachers at the school being married to the District chief of police you tend to find out quickly enough if it is true or not. And the local cops do take violence against children very seriously.

[Huayrat]

so its a rumour then.. where is the evidence to support this

[soihok]

I hope its only a rumour. I'll push to find out about more on location /school and if possible, names.

[KhaoNiaw]

This story often turns up during the summer holidays when kids are roaming around. A year or two ago, one of the groups involved in locating missing persons, maybe the Mirror foundation, tried to follow up on the van kidnapping/organ removal stories in areas where there were reports and rumours flying around. They were always sent to the next village or it came from a friend of a friend and they couldn't confirm a single case

That's not to say that children are never snatched but I think a lot of the stories at the wilder end of the scale are just rumour and nothing more.

Edited March 26, 2012 by KhaoNiaw

[harrry]

Extremely unlikely as I am sure the cremation would not be allowed on the day of finding the body or the next day. An autopsy would be needed. Sounds like an urban myth.

[soihok]

Hope so.

[soihok]

School is inside Amphur Pak Chong and is called ( excuse my translation skills ) "Klong Din Dam". It is a tambon near to Khao Yai.

[rgs2001uk]

A load of BS.

Something like this would have been on the national news and made the newspapers.

I have read nothing of the sort, neither have I seen any tv reports.

[cdmtdm]

sounds like someone has been watching too much Tv ... what a load of dribble .......

[KunMatt]

Extremely unlikely as I am sure the cremation would not be allowed on the day of finding the body or the next day. An autopsy would be needed. Sounds like an urban myth.

I was recently told that if a Thai does not die of natural causes they should be buried for 3 years and then exhumed and cremated, at least that is the practice where I live and what happened to my gf's cousin and children who were killed in a hit and run.

[barrybankruad]

Sems strange to me. I know of many many cases where death has been accidental and the deceased has been cremated after the normal funeral rites. I did once however attend the cremation of a young man who had committed suicide. He was entombed in a crypt for seven years before his remains where exhumed, blessed by the monks and then cremated.

[KunMatt]

Sems strange to me. I know of many many cases where death has been accidental and the deceased has been cremated after the normal funeral rites. I did once however attend the cremation of a young man who had committed suicide. He was entombed in a crypt for seven years before his remains where exhumed, blessed by the monks and then cremated.

Yeah I asked my gf about it again this morning and she said that they dont necessarily do it everywhere, Bangkok for example, but that is definitely the practice here.

It's so the ghost can find it's body again!

[BigJohnnyBKK]

There are crim gangs that roam the countryside and snatch kids. I haven't ever seen any hard evidence of what they use them for, but there isn't any doubt that the kids do disappear, and when we had a spate of them around Surin a couple of years ago - over a dozen between 6 and 14 years old - the eyewitness accounts described the same dark-coloured van.

I'd believe sex slave trafficking before the organ story. . .

And in this case the cops weren't being bought off - at least the local ones were actually exerting themselves to try to catch the gang, but I never heard of any resolution.

Nasty business, but far less of a problem here than it is back in the States.