Woman arrested for stealing newborn
A woman in Nakhon Pathom whose own baby had apparently died at birth tried to replace it by stealing a newborn from his Myanmar parents.
A woman in Nakhon Pathom whose own baby had apparently died at birth tried to replace it by stealing a newborn from his Myanmar parents.
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Woman arrested for stealing newborn
Online reporters
A woman was arrested on Monday for stealing a newborn baby from his Myanmar parents after pretending to be a caretaker.
Suneeporn Sakdee was lying in bed with a five-day-old boy when police called on her house in Muang district of Nakhon Pathom. When asked for the birth certificate of the baby, she burst into tears and admitted she had stolen him from his Myanmar parents on Sunday.
Police tracked the 35-year-old woman from the CCTV footage at Nakhonpathom Hospital and other locations, including roads and shops on Sunday after Myant Tat filed a complaint at Muang police station of Nakhon Pathom that a woman had stolen his baby.
The baby was born to Myant Tat and Yin, a mother who goes by one name, at the hospital on Thursday.
Mrs Suneeporn had hung around the baby ward since Friday. She told hospital staff that she was a relative while the Myanmar couple thought she was a good samaritan.
Mrs Suneeporn even paid for all expenses when the couple and the baby checked out of the hospital and returned to their house in Muang district on Sunday morning.
Later in the afternoon, she came to their house and told them that the baby needed a vaccination. The mother of the baby allowed Mrs Suneeporn to take the baby back to the hospital with her husband in a taxi.
Mrs Suneeporn carried the baby and went inside the hospital while Myant Tat paid the fare. Myant Tat then went to the ward but did not find her or his baby, as Mrs Suneeporn took the baby out through another gate where she was caught on CCTV.
Mrs Suneeporn told Pol Lt Gen Sutthipong Wongpin, chief of the Provincial Police Region 7, that her own baby died during delivery at another hospital on Thursday.
She was afraid her husband would be heartbroken if he knew the truth and decided to come to Nakhon Pathom Hospital on Friday to look for another baby, according to Pol Lt Gen Sutthipong.
She was charged with taking an underaged child from parents, he added.
Police took the baby back to Nakhonpathom Hospital for a medical check on Monday after his identity was confirmed by the father.
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