Man accused of beating boy, 2, to death after prolonged abuse
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A mother yesterday lodged a police complaint against her new husband for the brutal killing of her young boy.
“My friend said he often stomped on my son, bit him, banged his head against the wall and pushed his head into a toilet. He did all this when I was not in the room with them,” Sirimongkhon Premprasai said.
Two-year-old Pongsakorn Imjad died from a ruptured spleen and liver and a broken skull.
Sirimongkhon told police that her husband, Mhai Rungwong, had assaulted the boy. She said when she was present, her husband just pinched her son.
When she returned to the room she shared with Mhai and the friend, Apisek Deeluan, on Friday night, her boy was barely conscious and only said, “Mom, bite bite”.
Her husband told her that he did not know what had happened to her son.
“I rushed him to Sikharin Hospital from where he was referred to Chulalongkorn Hospital. He succumbed to his injuries there and I learned his autopsy results,” she said.
After Mhai tried to send his stepson’s body to a crematorium in the Bang Na area, she told her father and he contacted the Pavena Foundation for Children and Women, she said.
The founder, Pavena Hongsakul, accompanied the mother to Phra Khanong Police Station. “We have already sought help from the superintendent of Bang Na Police Station in taking custody of the boy’s body,” Pavena said.
Pol Lt-Colonel Rungchart Rungthong, deputy superintendent of Phra Khanong Police Station, said he would also question the mother’s friend, Apisek, and gather evidence to take out an arrest warrant for Mhai.
Mhai and Sirimongkhon had been together for just a few months when, on November 15, she decided to bring her boy to live with them.
