Kidnapped infant found in another hospital

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Kidnapped infant found in another hospital

WINAI WONGWIRAKHAN

THE NATION

ROI ET:-- AN INFANT abducted from the Roi Et Hospital’s delivery ward during a fire drill on Wednesday afternoon was allegedly found in the same province at a privately run hospital the same evening.

Muang Roi Et precinct superintendent Pol Colonel Somchai Nilchan said a 30-year-old woman, who claimed to have given birth at home, and her family had taken the baby to the Roi Et Thonburi Hospital. After the woman and child were admitted for recovery, the nurses noticed that the umbilical chord and stitches appeared to have been done by a professional at a hospital instead of at home as she claimed.

Also, the first three pages of the Roi Et maternal and prenatal health book that the woman carried appeared to be torn, and the book had been filed missing since December 9. The hospital alerted police for further investigation after blood tests of the infant and woman showed there was no match.

At press time, police were seeking an arrest warrant for the woman over charges of taking a minor under the age of 15 from her parents without sound reason.

However, the family insisted it had nothing to do with the infant's abduction and that it was their child, while the mother-in-law had police dig out the placenta and bloodstained clothes from her home backyard as evidence, Somchai said.

Police later had the infant's parents identify their child from a line-up of six infants, Somchai said. The couple also underwent blood tests and results showed a match with the infant's blood type. Police also had the parents and the other couple undergo DNA tests and the Institute of Forensic Medicine is expected to come up with the results in seven days.

Following the mother's complaint on Wednesday afternoon that her infant had gone missing from the children's ward while she had gone to the toilet and then outside due to the fire drill, police investigation showed that a woman in her 30s-40s was also spotted nearby before the disappearance. Subsequent inspection of CCTV footage showed the suspect fleeing the hospital with the baby. Meanwhile, Roi Et Hospital director Dr Kriengkrai Kovitangkoon told the press that the hospital was equipped with a good security system, which included 119 CCTV cameras, 26 security guards on a three-shift rotation and medical staff working round the clock. However the ward in question had been newly built and security cameras were waiting to be installed at the entrance. He said the hospital planned to install 60 CCTV cameras at risky spots and wards next year.

He also said the hospital had sent medical staff to join the multi-disciplinary team to provide care to the infant pending investigation.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Kidnapped-infant-found-in-another-hospital-30275638.html

-- The Nation 2015-12-25

[Somtamnication]

Arai wa?

[SOTIRIOS]

....complete and utter insanity....

...nothing is sacred....

...anything goes...

[trogers]

Since the time of King Solomon...

[soalbundy]

I can think of nothing worse than having your child kidnapped. I am maybe paranoid about it, i pick my 8 year old son up from his school every day even though it's less than 1 km away and he would rather walk home with his friends.

[Dumbastheycome]

I predict a sadder ending. If the accused abductors were able to direct police to evidence of a birth albeit not related to the abducted baby then it is very possible demented grief or some other irrational reason led them to the abduction of a replacement.

[scorecard]

I can think of nothing worse than having your child kidnapped. I am maybe paranoid about it, i pick my 8 year old son up from his school every day even though it's less than 1 km away and he would rather walk home with his friends.

Your not paranoid. It happened in my extended Thai family, girl about 5 or 6 yrs old kidnapped, would now be about 18 years old. No clues ever found.

Only child and parents never had more children for fear it would happen again. Parents are still zombies and still avoid family and other activities where children are present.

Regularly family adults and other people bring it all up again and ask the parents insensitive questions, parents get upset and leave, not seen for months.

Hideous situation.

[Ks45672]

Omfg-imagine having to pick your stolen baby out of a lineup of 6 new born babies

They all look the same to me.. Thank God for dna testing lol

[Seastallion]

I predict a sadder ending. If the accused abductors were able to direct police to evidence of a birth albeit not related to the abducted baby then it is very possible demented grief or some other irrational reason led them to the abduction of a replacement.

Indeed.

"while the mother-in-law had police dig out the placenta and bloodstained clothes from her home backyard as evidence, Somchai said."

There is a dead baby somewhere.

Or a kidnapped/gifted/hidden baby somewhere.

Hopefully the latter latter

[duckmandon]

You failed the fire drill! Even a drill means evacuate everyone including the old & newborn from the building. Only in Thailand.

[Dumbastheycome]

You failed the fire drill! Even a drill means evacuate everyone including the old & newborn from the building. Only in Thailand.

Where does it say that the newborn were not being evacuated? Non essentialpublic and staff are the first out to allow essential staff to mobilize patients. But at the time a pretending mother/and or family could take the opportunity to snatch up and exit.

Why make Thailand a failure over this event when similar happens globally?

[Dumbastheycome]

You failed the fire drill! Even a drill means evacuate everyone including the old & newborn from the building. Only in Thailand.

Where does it say that the newborn were not being evacuated? Non essential public and staff are the first out to allow essential staff to mobilize patients. But at the time a pretending mother/and or family could take the opportunity to snatch up and exit.

Why make Thailand a failure over this event when similar happens globally?

In different circumstances there would be people who would accuse Thailand of not having Hospital fire drills !