Overview
- A maintenance worker or housekeeper reported faint cries and found the baby in a toilet flush tank in Bangkok’s Lat Krabang district.
- Hospital staff treated hypothermia and weakness, and the roughly cut umbilical cord indicated a very recent, unattended birth.
- The infant is being cared for in intensive care, and child protection authorities have taken legal custody.
- Police have opened an investigation under Section 317 of the Thai Penal Code and are working to identify the mother, a charge that can carry up to 15 years in prison.
- Investigators are also reviewing CCTV in a separate case from the same day in which a newborn boy was found dead in another district.