Father Locks Mentally Ill Daughter On Manmade Island For 20 Years In Chumphon

[JimsKnight]

Probably better than the care she'd get in a Thai loony bin.......

Exactly, all you liberal fools speak a good noise but fail to realise that this woman would be in just a bad state in what Thailand's excuse for a looney bin is.

If you want to know what they are like just read some Victorian accounts of the Bedlam asylum. At least it's a family relative doing what he can as best he can in a tough situation.

I swear that some of you don't even live in reality just some fantasy world where everything is ok and will be taken care of.

[GentlemanJim]

Imagine how many top class Mental institutions/Hospices could be built for the 'missing' 260 Billion from the rice scam! Chew on that thought a while PTP.

[EyesWideOpen]

When I first arrived here I met a lady, very nice and I really liked her. After a few days she said she had to go visit her relatives and I decided to go with her. Come to find out. She had a MR son that was living with them so she could get a farang. I asked her what was up. Her response to me was. And I quote. He will be dead soon. So don't worry about it. No remorse what so ever. I ran as soon as I got back to town.... Kinda scary.

Death is looked at in a totally different way here. Noooooooo problem, really.

That is pap fed to the poor people to keep them in line. The rich people in Thailand seem to value their own life very highly.... :-) Edited June 6, 2013 by EyesWideOpen

[hellodolly]

When I first arrived here I met a lady, very nice and I really liked her. After a few days she said she had to go visit her relatives and I decided to go with her. Come to find out. She had a MR son that was living with them so she could get a farang. I asked her what was up. Her response to me was. And I quote. He will be dead soon. So don't worry about it. No remorse what so ever. I ran as soon as I got back to town.... Kinda scary.

Death is looked at in a totally different way here. Noooooooo problem, really.

That is pap fed to the poor people to keep them in line. The rich people in Thailand seem to value their own life very highly.... :-)

Well that is one way of looking at it. I tend more to the value what they can buy and power they can have over others. Take away their money and they will be no different than any one else.

[hellodolly]

Perhaps if there were mental health resources available?

This is what happens when poor uneducated people are left to deal with matters on their own.

I wouldn't be so quick to condemn the father. One doesn't know the full circumstances of the case.

Great post.

The article says nothing about the conditions she lived under.

All it said was that she was fed regularly. I would bet that she was also given clothes to wear. Other people knew of the situation and very possibly they contributed items to her. How big was the area she was inclosed in.

Just a headline grabbing article with no value put out to sell a news paper.

[fabianfred]

You silly farang just don't understand Thainess and what it means to be Buddhist.

Of course...one person can never really understand another...especially those from completely different cultures....since most people do not even understand themselves.

As for the Buddhist part.... we can often understand Buddhism far better than the Thais...because we have come to it from outside and therefore studied it. The Thai version of Buddhism we shall never understand because it is what they have grown up alongside as a part of their daily lives, and have often not studied it, just copy what their parents have done.

Theravada Buddhism we can understand very well....but the Thai version is often a mystery to us because it is mixed up with all kinds or animist beliefs.

Whenever Buddhism comes into a Country it doesn't replace the original beliefs, but lives alongside them. That is why Burmese or Thai or Sri Lankan versions of Buddhism all differ slightly.

[Robby nz]

Couldnt help noticing alongside this story an add for a "luxury retirement care facility".

You have money you can get any care you need, want.

You have very little nobody wants to know so you do the best you can.

I suspect thats just what this man did.

[webfact]

UPDATE:
Father Imprisoned Own Daughter For Over 20 Years


An elder father imprisoned his own daughter for over 20 years after he was aware of his daughter’s mental illness. He built an islet at the of his house to imprison her.

CHUMPORN – June 5, 2013 [PDN]; Journalists and reporters were informed by 37 year-old Surasak Manatirat that an elder man had to imprison his daughter for over 20 years, as his daughter was suffering from an mental illness.

Reporters together with Police Lt. Colonel Greanggrai Phoprasit of Wisaineu police station along with several other people went to the reported house where the woman was detained at. She was found in a little hut that was surrounded by brick walls, which looked like a little island. Police were able to identify her as 39 year-old Anong Wattanajit, when the Police General saw her, she was talking to herself in a disheveled state.



Mr. Cheab Wattanajit, the 86 year-old father of Ms. Anong revealed that her daughter was born normal. She graduated from middle school when she was 17 and married her boyfriend, she then relocated to Songkla province. But after only 5 months of living in Songkla, she split up with her husband, which made her return to live with her father. Not long after she had split with her husband, she had developed a mental illness which made go mad on hot days. She would destroy things around her and other people’s houses. Mr. Cheab once tried to treat her at a local hospital, but the expenses were too high for him, making him unable to treat her daughter. He didn’t know what to do, he then came up with an idea to put her in an little islet where she wouldn’t do anything to anyone. He then built a brick wall around a little hut, where he then detained his daughter for over 20 years.

Mr. Jud Sujjarit, the head of the village where Mr. Cheab and his daughter lived at said that he didn’t know how to help Mr. Cheab. He reported that there was someone in his village needing help to the district office, but help was never sent it. Ms. Anong was living like an animal where she was only fed and occasionally showered, which made Mr. Jud pity her and ultimately inform the media and police.

Source: http://www.pattayadailynews.com/en/2013/06/06/father-imprisoned-own-daughter-for-over-20-years/

-- Pattaya Daily News 2013-2013-06-07

[Robby nz]

So looks like after receiving no help at all the man did the best he could to protect the girl from herself and others from her.

A Police LT Col has got his name in the papers as a big hero, what now, will the girl or the family get any help or will it all be forgotten again?

[winstonc]

Probably better than the care she'd get in a Thai loony bin.......

Exactly, all you liberal fools speak a good noise but fail to realise that this woman would be in just a bad state in what Thailand's excuse for a looney bin is.

If you want to know what they are like just read some Victorian accounts of the Bedlam asylum. At least it's a family relative doing what he can as best he can in a tough situation.

I swear that some of you don't even live in reality just some fantasy world where everything is ok and will be taken care of.

unfortunatly we do live in the world of reality sunshine,all that tosh its a thirld world country etc,,has no credible excuse,,its the best he can do NO he could have done better,, its family ,, infact its another human being,jesus people stop defending criminality its morally wrong to say the least,,,

[jackr]

Perhaps if there were mental health resources available?

This is what happens when poor uneducated people are left to deal with matters on their own.

I wouldn't be so quick to condemn the father. One doesn't know the full circumstances of the case.

Yes, as horrendous and uncivilized as it is, if you try to look at it through a Thai's eyes, he is probably seen as being very good to her where many others would lock them away, or drive to the city/into the country and leave them, or worse!

[Gerald14]

Well I reckon the father should be in a mental home as well

[DocN]

"Good" Buddhists+ saving face+ authorities, not giving a hoot + (no money being made)= disaster!

Poor woman!

[sausageandmash]

Probably better than the care she'd get in a Thai loony bin.......

or as we like to call it.......Thailand.

[sunnyk]

This happens here in India as well. I hear such news few times in a year.

[dalsobrook]

I have seen and heard some really bazaar things in Thailand, but this one takes the cake! Who accused him/ratted him out?

[Credo]

There are quite a few siblings and a mother who aren't mentioned in the story. I wonder what there thoughts are on the girls treatment?

[atyclb]

"Mentally disabled daughter"

Guess he means more severe then the average(baseline) in society

[Joe Mamma]

Idiot caretakers did this in the old days with reckless abandon. My Mom was scared to death of uncle Jack who was kept in the attic for years. He didn't have a chance to get help. People were ashamed of these family members who were "NOT RIGHT". They hid them away as if they are a disgrace to the family name. Dark ages.

Edited June 7, 2013 by Joe Mamma

[gerryBScot]

Terribly sad story. Now that the woman has been "liberated" is she likely to get any sort of appropriate assistance?

[SteeleJoe]

My wife's elder sister that has a mental problem, not serious, was chained and padlocked to a wall to stop her going out by the live in family. We rescued her.

I can vouch for the fact that at least up until not too many years ago, a Thai mental hospital isn't much better, if at all.

[SteeleJoe]

Probably better than the care she'd get in a Thai loony bin.......

I have seen Thai institutions - unless they have changed A LOT, you aren't far wrong.

[oldsailor35]

As someone has mentioned. She has got several siblings, so why condemn her father when they , who must be in their 30's to 40's have apparently done nothing whatsoever to help her.

[egro]

UPDATE:

Not long after she had split with her husband, she had developed a mental illness which made go mad on hot days.

Good grief, what kind of newspaper would print such 19th century rubbish?

Mr. Cheab once tried to treat her at a local hospital, but the expenses were too high for him, making him unable to treat her daughter. He didn’t know what to do

Gee, why isn't the vaunted 30-baht health scheme helping these poor people?

[egro]

Probably better than the care she'd get in a Thai loony bin.......

I have seen Thai institutions - unless they have changed A LOT, you aren't far wrong.

And as posted earlier, even those places are collectively short over a million beds for the mentally ill in Thailand.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/644709-father-locks-mentally-ill-daughter-on-manmade-island-for-20-years-in-chumphon/page-2#entry6481094

The father did what he could do when faced with no assistance. His daughter needed medication and treatment. She had neither and he could not provide either. What he could do is feed her and isolate her for her own protection. Beyond that, it's literally impossible to go much further given the ravages of her untreated psychosis controlled the situation.

Again, welcome to the several posters that are unaware of what 3rd world health care entails.

Edited June 7, 2013 by egro

[mickyboy]

You silly farang just don't understand Thainess and what it means to be Buddhist.

we are not silly and know about the ways of life in diffrent cultures this happen all over the world could have been worse if it was the auntie proberly taken her to walking street or bangla road and sold her for 500 bhat a time at least she was kept out harms ways the thing that gets me what if there was say snake and she went to pick it up bite her deadly mind you might have been a realease from the liveing hell

[Mudcrab]

Very sad situation all the way around. A father with limited means and unable to get mental health services for his daughter. A daughter that never got the treatment she needs and a lot of people who didn't seem to care.

Welcome to the West. Underfunded, misunderstood, and ignored...much easier that way.

[lee b]

I THINK THE FATHER SHOULD BE LOCKED UP !!

[rammis35]

At 17 she had already been married for 5 years and then divorced before she started showing signs of mental illness. So she was married by 11 ort 12 years old, if I'm reading this right. That could have a strain on the mental health.

[SteeleJoe]

At 17 she had already been married for 5 years and then divorced before she started showing signs of mental illness. So she was married by 11 ort 12 years old, if I'm reading this right. That could have a strain on the mental health.

Errr...no, you are NOT reading it right. Not even close.

The article clearly states she got married at 17 and split with her husband 5 months later.