Chiang Mai massage worker has baby in the police toilets, abandons the child

Thai Rath reports that police in Chiang Mai have located and arrested a 43 year old woman who snuck into the city district police station and had a baby in the toilets there.

After giving birth last weekend, the mother left with her child still in the toilet bowl. The baby was found soon after, survived, and is now stable and healthy in the Maharat Nakorn Hospital.

43 year old Busaba Somfu, a massage worker at a nearby shop, has been arrested over the incident.

She explained to police that she experienced stomach pains while serving a customer. She went into the police toilets and was ‘shocked’ when she gave birth.

She was caught on CCTV entering the toilet at 10.05 pm and leaving at 10.21 pm. She explained that she was not ready to have a child and her husband had refused to accept any responsibility, so she left her baby in the toilet bowl.

Police Col Piyaphan Patrapong, a deputy commander of the provincial Chiang Mai police, says the woman has been charged under a law related to abandoning a child.

Maharat Nakorn Hospital staff say the baby was in ‘good condition’ and would be handed over to a children’s home as no one had come to claim the child.

SOURCE: Thai Rath