Thai newborn survives after being stabbed, buried alive | Inquirer News

Thai newborn survives after being stabbed, buried alive

/ 02:32 PM February 25, 2016

BANGKOK — Thai police are hunting for the parents of a newborn infant who survived being stabbed multiple times and buried alive in a field, officers said Thursday.

The baby boy, who had more than a dozen stab wounds, was discovered in a shallow grave covered with leaves by a farmer in the northeastern province of Khon Kaen.

The woman found the stricken baby after hearing the infant’s cries while her cows grazed on a eucalyptus plantation on Tuesday, local media reported.

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“We’ve deployed police to find the culprit,” case officer Nopporn Rithnual told AFP.

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The infant was now “out off danger” according to Nopporn and being cared for at a hospital in the province, with local TV channels airing footage of doctors hovering around the child’s bed.

Police have yet to uncover a motive behind the grisly crime.

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Abortions are illegal but common in Thailand, which has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the region but a conservative society that stigmatises premarital sex.

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Despite the country’s reputation as one of the globe’s sex industry hubs, sex education targeting youth is limited and largely focuses on promoting abstinence.

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In 2011 an undertaker was sentenced to 40 months in prison for helping hide roughly 2,000 illegally aborted fetuses on the grounds of a Buddhist temple in Bangkok.
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