Woman, 34, charged with stealing five-day-old baby

Woman, 34, charged with stealing five-day-old baby

By Arithat Pornasawayothin

The Nation

A 34-year-old Thai woman was arrested on Monday for allegedly stealing a Myanmar couple's five-day-old baby boy from Nakhon Phathom Hospital on Sunday.

The suspect, identified as construction worker Suneeporn Sakda, reportedly lost her own baby in the womb and stole the new-born to lie to her husband that she had given birth, police said.

She was arrested and the baby recovered at a workers' camp in Soi Phai Toey Tai in Tambon Bor Phab of Nakhon Pathom's Muang district at around 10am.

Suneeporn befriended the baby's mother at the hospital's maternity ward on Thursday and followed the mother and infant to their home when they were discharged from hospital on Saturday. 

She allegedly returned on Sunday to tell the couple that the hospital required the baby to have an injection, so the father got a taxi back to the hospital along with Suneeporn and another Myanmar friend.

Suneeporn allegedy then took the baby and walked ahead, purportedly to see a doctor, while the father paid the taxi fare. But she left the premises with the baby.

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