Baby abduction: Thai suspect arrested after 4 years

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Child abductor arrested and grown up child retrieved



SAMUT PRAKAN: -- Provincial Police Region 4 yesterday arrested a woman and charged her for the abduction of a newborn baby from Khon Kaen Hospital four years ago.

She raised the child as her own baby and told police she was ready to pay at all prices to have the child who now called her “Mom” back to her arms, saying the child is happy and well taken care of.

The alleged kidnapper was identified as Mrs. Anchulee Chitkhuntod.

Upon being arrested, she confessed during an interrogation of stealing a just-born baby girl from Khon Kaen Hospital four years ago, as she was desperate to have her own child after having a miscarriage.

She told the police that on the day of the incident, she had wandered into the maternity ward looking for a baby to take back home.

She found one mother with a baby girl and when the mother was unaware she walked in and took the baby.

She said she brought the child back to her pick-up truck and drove back home to her husband in Chaiyaphum province.

When she returned home, she lied to all her family members that the child was hers.

She said that since then she raised the little girl until she was two years old before sending her off to her husband’s parents as she had to look for job in another province.

She also stressed that she has always given money support to her in-laws in order to ensure that the child was well looked after.

Police said the abduction happened on February 13, 2011, when the woman stole the 2-day old baby girl from her mother, Mrs Kansuda Samdaeng, who informed the police that she had went into the bathroom when her daughter was taken away.

CCTV footages captured a middle-aged woman, around 30-40 years old, plump with dark skin walked past a counter on the second floor of the building before escaping from there holding the baby in her arms.

Police reported that they have been following the abduction ever since.

The police further stated that the latest clue has been found in August, where they had investigated a birth certificate of a 4-year old girl called, Arisa Chitkhuntod, who had just applied to the Wang Ta Thep school of Thepsatit district in Chaiyaphum province. They had found that the certificate had been tampered with and suspected it might have been forged.

After comparing the certificate with the Interior Ministry’s Civil Registration Office, it was revealed that the little girl’s identification number belonged to another child, who should be about 9 years old and was born in Khon Kaen province.

The police assumed that the little girl could be the newborn baby who was stolen 4 years ago and decided to question her paternal grandfather, Mr Samak Chitkhuntod about the background of the little girl.

They later interrogated the father of the child, Mr Sakpichit and his wife, Mrs Anchulee, who later admitted to kidnapping the baby girl from Khon Kaen Hospital in 2011.

DNA test pointed the baby girl having matched with Mrs Kansuda Samdaeng.

The suspect, charged with child abduction, will be prosecuted while the grown up baby is pending talk of how to heal her if she knew she is not the real mother.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/child-abductor-arrested-and-grown-up-child-retrieved

-- Thai PBS 2015-11-06

[Artisi]

Sad all round, but the real mother is the mother - so only one option available ........... as traumatic as it might be intially for the little girl, but can we assume in the long run it will be better for her.

And did she really care about the child she stole " ..................until she was two years old before sending her off to her husband’s parents as she had to look for job in another province."

[JAG]

Sad all round, but the real mother is the mother - so only one option available ........... as traumatic as it might be intially for the little girl, but can we assume in the long run it will be better for her.

And did she really care about the child she stole " ..................until she was two years old before sending her off to her husband’s parents as she had to look for job in another province."

Yes it is sad, very sad.

I hope that she gets some proper help rather than just getting banged up for umpteen years and forgotten.

I also think that the whole business of children being sent to their grandparents to be raised, which seems very common here, is very sad.

[Ulic]

Sad all round, but the real mother is the mother - so only one option available ........... as traumatic as it might be intially for the little girl, but can we assume in the long run it will be better for her.

And did she really care about the child she stole " ..................until she was two years old before sending her off to her husband’s parents as she had to look for job in another province."

Yes it is sad, very sad.

I hope that she gets some proper help rather than just getting banged up for umpteen years and forgotten.

I also think that the whole business of children being sent to their grandparents to be raised, which seems very common here, is very sad.

I hope she gets banged up for umpteen years and then some, and her case is front page news

so it acts as a deterrent to those who may contemplate a similar crime and also to warn hospital

staff to be vigilant in watching for these selfish (yes troubled) criminals who put there wants first.

[Artisi]

Yes, extremely slack on the hospitals part.

[cookee68]

Sad all round, but the real mother is the mother - so only one option available ........... as traumatic as it might be intially for the little girl, but can we assume in the long run it will be better for her.

And did she really care about the child she stole " ..................until she was two years old before sending her off to her husband’s parents as she had to look for job in another province."

Yes it is sad, very sad.

I hope that she gets some proper help rather than just getting banged up for umpteen years and forgotten.

I also think that the whole business of children being sent to their grandparents to be raised, which seems very common here, is very sad.

She should be banged up, imagine what the real parents did, i wonder where she went to work

[cyberfarang]

What an amazing piece of detective work and the big bonus is, the child is safe and well.

Cannot imagine what the real mother has gone through over the last 3 years. But at least this story does have a happy ending.

[duckmandon]

This happens world wide. Probably caused by the miscarriage & the need to have a child. Sad as she probably didn't realise it was wrong at the time. This is where the family should have stepped in & supported her. But it doesn't excuse the fact that she took the baby & left the mother & family devistated. Sad on both sides & now a child who will be taken back to her real parents & will need special help for a long time.

[Calach]

Women...

[SABloke]

I don't have a link because it was on Pantip, but the family of the lady that abducted the child are trying to sue the biological mother for custody as they are financially more stable. Da Fuq ??? If the courts accept the case this country is more batshirt crazy than I thought.

[PeVee1st]

SABloke, the same was reported in todays BKK Post. I agree with U, if the courts accept this case, then there is "no hope" for justice!!!

[Basil B]

All though there are frequent attempts, fortunately child abduction of this type is rare and now with registry of birth needing doctor/midwife verification in many countries, and DNA profiling means that eventually they will be found out.

Edited November 7, 2015 by Basil B

[William C F Pierce]

The registration at birth should be bar coded with the child's and mother's DNA. You cannot fake DNA. This is a practice that should be adopted world wide. Then sad stories like this may happen less.