A young woman who pushed her own two-year-old son into a klong in order to drown him has confessed to her police interrogators that she was stressed at having to take care of the boy.
The woman, 21-year old Ms Onwanichaya Dankaew, said she broke up with her husband, but still had her grandmother to help take care of her son while she went to work at a finance company in Nonthaburi’s Bang Bua Thong district.
However, she added that, her grandmother frequently took the boy to her office to let her take care of the boy.
On Feb 26, her grandmother dropped the boy off at her workplace again, making her stressed out and she decided to kill the boy.
The boy’s body was found in Klong Ton Noon in Bang Bua Thong district on Tuesday.
Police examined CCTV system at the crime scene at the canal and found a woman holding the hand of a boy crossing a bridge toward the klong. On the way back, she was seen walking alone without the boy.
Police managed to identify the woman, Ms Onwanichaya, and made the arrest in front of Piyawarom housing estate on Tuesday.
The suspect was taken to the Nonthaburi court on March 1for a court order to have her detained at the provincial prison pending further investigation.
The suspect’s grandmother, Mrs Rak Buatui, said she was concerned that Ms Onwanichaya might attempt suicide because she used to harm herself and occasionally beat her son.
(Source:-ThaiPBS)