Frantic Phuket parents in plea over missing daughter, age 6

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Frantic Phuket parents in plea over missing daughter, age 6
Prapaporn Jitmaneeyaphan


Nong Dear in a photo taken a year ago, the most recent one the family have of her.

PHUKET: -- Thanoo and Jaroon Tubkaew, owners of a somtam stall in Chalong, have issued a frantic plea for people to help find their six-year old daughter, who has been missing since last Friday afternoon (December 6).

Natthapa “Nong Dear” Tubkaew went missing after being dropped off close to home after spending an hour at her aunt’s house.

The aunt, Surin “Rin” Sridow, told The Phuket News today, “On that day, her father brought her to my house around 1 pm to play with me as usual. She’s a talkative and cheerful girl and she came to my house pretty often.

“Around 2 pm she went with Boy, who is about 20 and is a very close friend of Nong Dear’s elder. He was supposed to drop her off at her home [on Soi 4], but instead – at her request – he dropped her at Soi 5, from where, she told him, she intended to walk to play with friends in Soi 2.”

That was the last time she was seen by anyone related to the family.

“Later, about 3 pm, her father came to pick her up at my house, and we became very worried and started to look for her. After searching for her everywhere without success, we decided at around 7 pm to contact Chalong police station to tell them she was missing.

Nong Dear’s sister, 19-year-old Juthatip “Dow” Tubkaew, told The Phuket News that when she disappeared the little girl was wearing a yellow T-shirt with a cartoon on the front of it, and red shorts.

Nong Dear is 120 cm tall, weighs 16 kilos and has hair cut straight across her forehead and hanging down at the back to below her waist. She is missing both upper front teeth.

Police have already questioned everyone who was with Nong Dear on Friday, and subsequent searches have failed to locate her.

Anyone with information can call her sister Dow at 086-9544093, her aunt Rin at 082 285 4930 (Rin’s), or Chalong Police at 076-381 247.

Source: http://www.thephuketnews.com/frantic-phuket-parents-in-plea-over-missing-daughter-age-6-43345.php


-- Phuket News 2013-12-10

[laurentbkk]

I really hope they will find this little girl ..... just hope nothing bad happened to her .....

[stevenl]

I fully understand the desperation of the parents, I have a 6-year old kid myself, but after 4 full days chances of her being found alive and well are really, really small.

[LivinginKata]

Missing for 4 days. Sadly this does not look good for this little girl.

[simon43]

I seem to recall with previous events such as this that the guilty party was often called Boy. It seems that we only have Boy's word that he dropped her off.

I hope there is good news and she is found unharmed

Simon

[WitawatWatawit]

Fingers and toes crossed. Please let her be found safe and well. My heart goes out to her parents.

[keestha]

I seem to recall with previous events such as this that the guilty party was often called Boy. It seems that we only have Boy's word that he dropped her off.

I hope there is good news and she is found unharmed

Simon

No reason to assume Boy is the culprit (Simon, I know you don't). But I am a parent, and no way if I would be entrusted with the task of bringing a 6 year old child home, I would release her from my care before she really is home.

Hope she'll be found alive and well.

[transam]

I pray.............

[Deserted]

I hope we can get an update that she is safe and sound.

[catweazle]

If there is any police officer or male relative with a brain, he would grab his toolbox and take "Boy" on a lttle fun trip to a deserted garage and get him talking...

The story simply screams where to search, respectively whom to interrogate.

As for the poor girl, I have little hope that she ever will return home alive.

I also think the parents are partially at fault too since they did not really seem to care about Nong Dear until she disappeared (the fact that they have nothing better to offer as a picture but a crumpled Kodak mugshot tells me a lot). Having third parties drive her around and drop her off here and there. It's a six year old child for Pete's sake, not a 20 year old going to a party!

For the little girl's sake I hope that my predictions are wrong and that she will be found happy and healthy and that the parents learn their lesson from this and either send and pick her up themselves or take a little time to care for and play with her.

Again, one of those days I'm losing my hope for mankind in general

The more I think about it, the more I would like to drive to Chalong and pick up "Boy" for that garage talk myself... where the F is Dexter?

Edited December 11, 2013 by catweazle

[LivinginKata]

Good analysis by catweazle. I was saying much the same thing to my wife. That 20 year old has a lot to answer.

[belg]

i hope she is save, maybe they can ask that 20 year old what he did with the girl, smells fishy

[eezergood]

I cannot imagine what the poor parents are going through...... fingers crossed for a happy ending to this story

[arminbkk]

So she says she will go play with kids in soi 2 and then gets dropped off at soi 5.....which also means on the opposite side of the road.

Since one side is even numbers and the opposite side uneven numbers.

Why not just drop her in soi 2?

Also, she lives in soi 4, so walking around there (from soi 5 to 2, supposedly) people should have seen her and

recognized her. I don't know the area and there is no street name mentioned, but there are always Thai people outside everywhere (surely at 2 in the afternoon).

They should question everyone around there. I assume they will/do.

Hope they find her.

[Dublin]

Hope she is found safe and well, hopefully some CCTV camera's in the area........

[a10ams]

Everything 'catweazle' said is exactly what went through my head when I read the original post.

[keestha]

Don't understand why everybody seems to be so convinced Boy took advantage of the child.

Children that age can be verbally very well developed, and tend to overestimate what they are capable of. My line of thinking is that she pleaded very convincingly with Boy to let her go by herself, and Boy, being not experienced with young children and lacking responsibility in general, just let her have her way.

Anyway it is all speculation. Pray she will be all right.

Edited December 11, 2013 by keestha