A man arrested for the death of his two-year-old baby confesses to the murder of four other children in Thailand

2023-09-21 10:13:20

Updated Thursday, September 21, 2023 – 10:13

The man, 46 years old, is the father of ten children between six months and 22 years old with four women. He would have attributed his crimes to “various mental illnesses”

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A 46-year-old man arrested for the alleged murder of his two-year-old daughter in Thailand has confessed to the police having killed four other of his childrenaccording to local media.

The suspect, identified as upside downwas arrested on September 10 along with his wife, The namein the Bangk Khen district of Bangkok after the Police were alerted about a possible case of child abuse. In the premises, the Police rescue a two girls who were locked up in the bathroom with signs of aggression and launched a search for the couple, who were arrested hours later, reported the Bangkok Post newspaper.

At the police station, the man then confessed having killed his third daughter, only two years old, last May and whose body was found by police on Tuesday night buried in the kitchen area of ​​a rural property located in central Thailand, according to police sources told The Nation publication.

During his statement to the authorities, Songsak, who He is the father of ten children between six months and 22 years old. -fruits of his relationship with four women- has also admitted having killed four other of his children, between 2013 and 2018.

The corpses They would have been dumped in different parts of Bangkokso the authorities have set up a joint working group to find out the information and try to locate the bodies of the other children, according to the Thai Rat publication.

The suspect would have attributed his crimes to “various mental illnesses.”

For his part, the commissioner of division two of the Metropolitan Police Office, Atthaphol Anusit, expressed in statements to local journalists the day before that Both Songsak and two of the children’s mothers had already been denounced previously forheard neighbors about domestic violence and abuse against children.