Tragic! Body of newborn baby found stuffed in a bag and thrown in a trash can in Soi Sukhumvit 95

 

On October 16, 2024, the Ruamkatanyu volunteers at Phra Khanong Police Station received a report of a newborn baby's body found in a bag abandoned in front of a shophouse on Sukhumvit Soi 95, Bang Chak Subdistrict, Phra Khanong District, Bangkok. The Phra Khanong Police Station patrol officers went to investigate along with officers from the Forensic Science Division and the doctor on duty at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University.

The scene of the incident was a five-story, two-unit shophouse with rooms for rent. A sack containing cloth was found inside, containing the body of a newborn baby, approximately seven months pregnant, wrapped in a black T-shirt. The baby had been dead for approximately one day. In the bag, several more clothes were found covering it. Nearby, a green garbage truck belonging to the Phra Khanong District Office was found.

Mr. Manop Rittidech, volunteer of the Ruamkatanyu Foundation, Port Code 33, revealed that at around 9 a.m., a garbage collector reported that before the incident, he came to collect garbage and saw the bag in the blue bin in front of the shophouse with rental rooms. While emptying the trash, he was shocked to see the body of a child and quickly notified the authorities. He was informed by a Chula forensic doctor that the child was approximately 7 months old and male.

While the police investigators were informed that the child's mother was renting a room in this row of buildings, they checked and found Ms. Nan (surname withheld), 21 years old, a Burmese national, lying exhausted in her room on the 5th floor. She admitted that she was the child's mother and said that she was 7 months pregnant. Yesterday at 3:00 PM, she was in the room with a stomachache and the baby was born dead. She didn't know what to do so she put the baby in a bag and threw it in the trash in front of the building and returned to sleep on the floor in the room.

Both herself and her husband had cards and documents to legally enter Thailand to work. Before showing it to the officers, both of them worked in construction and returned in the morning and evening to stay in the room. The officers took them to Phra Khanong Police Station for questioning and prosecution. The body was sent for an autopsy at Chulalongkorn Hospital to find the cause of the baby's death.