Couple in Thailand charged with hiding body of dead 2-year-old boy in fridge: Reports
Screengrab taken from a Facebook live video on Jan 6, 2024, shows a cordon at the house where a boy's body was found in a refrigerator, in Nonthaburi, Thailand. (Image: Facebook/Nakon45 Anyawut Pro-amphai)
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A couple in Thailand have been charged with hiding the body of a dead toddler in a refrigerator, Thai police said on Monday (Jan 8).
The body of a two-year-old boy was found on Saturday in a fridge at a townhouse in the Bang Bua Thong district of Nonthaburi, the Bangkok Post reported.
Harnnarong Praiphanom, 31, and his wife, Marisa Thong-iam, 25, are accused of failing to report the toddler's death to the police and concealing the body. Harnnarong is also accused of drug offences.
Thai media reported that Harnnarong was a friend of the child's father. Preut Chamroonsart, chief of the Bang Bua Thong police station, told reporters that police would question the boy's biological parents.
Police officers, forensic experts and a medical team were called to a housing estate on Rattanathibet Road on Saturday.
According to a report from Thai PBS World, authorities had gone to the home after Harnnarong's mother complained of a rotting smell emanating from the house and that the child had been missing since Jan 2.
Officers found the body of the toddler wrapped in a blanket and placed inside a refrigerator, reported the Bangkok Post.
Autopsy results on Sunday confirmed the boy choked to death on sticky rice, reported Thai media. The boy's body was cremated on Monday.
