Two-year-old Down's syndrome girl rescued from drunk father
Police rescued a two-year-old girl with Down’s syndrome left unattended by drunk father inside a cement cage at a home in Nakhon Ratchasima on Tuesday night.
Police from the Sida district police station rushed to the house at 8.05pm after a neighbour posted a sympathetic clip of the girl.
Police said the girl was found crying, and her clothes were smelly with urine and excrement.
The girl was dirty because she soiled herself and she apparently ate her own excrement out of hunger.
The father, accused child rapist Pramote Khornaebklang, 35, was later located drinking at a shop.
He claimed that he could not take care of his daughter with Down’s syndrome alone as his wife had left him. He said he was out of job so he went out to drink everyday.
The house had no power or tap water because Pramote had not paid his bills, police said.
They said Pramote was arrested under a court warrant issued on October 30 last year on charges of raping an underage girl.
His daughter was sent to a government orphanage in Nakhon Ratchasima.
