A woman who found an infant abandoned by its mother on the edge of a canal in the northern metro area handed him over to a state orphanage this afternoon.
The 11-month-old infant, whose mother was seen trying repeatedly to hand the baby off to passers-by before leaving it by a Bang Bua Thong district canal, will reside at a government shelter as a ward of the state two days after she was discovered.
“Be a good boy,” Supattra Ajhan, 24, captioned a video of the moment.
She found the baby girl Monday evening at the Ta Khlai canal in Nonthaburi province on her way back from her boyfriend’s house in Bang Yai. Supatrra said the infant was found with a bottle of milk, handful of children’s clothing, and a signed birth certificate so she could be adopted by the Social Development and Human Security Ministry.
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Supattra recounted on social media that she took the baby to her nearby home Monday night. When the mother wandered back later that night, Supattra asked what to do with the girl. She said the mother responded that she didn’t want to raise the child and preferred to “leave it.”
Identified only as 26-year-old Waraporn, the mother is from the central province of Nakhon Sawan.
That’s when Supattra, fearing it could be unsafe to return the child, contacted the authorities. She later uploaded to TikTok footage of the mother signing papers confirming her intention to abandon the child.
Child abandonment is a persistent problem in the kingdom. The circumstances behind Waraporn’s decision to abandon the child were unclear. She has not been charged with a crime.
Local official Suraphon Pan-uthai said that he saw Waraporn try to give the baby away two or three times to passing cars.
