Woman seeks help to find abducted sons
A Cambodian property businesswoman yesterday sought help from Thai officials at Sa Kaew's Aranyaprathet border checkpoint to locate her maid who allegedly had abducted her two American-national sons aged 5 and 3 last December and reportedly crossed the bo
Un Somealea, 34, and her relatives yesterday went to seek the assistance of Captain Apinan Songkhramchai from the Burapha Task Force’s Paramilitary Ranger Company 1201 and Sa Kaew immigration police deputy chief Pol Lt-Colonel Benjapol Rodsawas. She claimed her 26-year-old Cambodian maid, Tek Jia, had abducted the sons from her Phnom Penh home since December 24 last year. She had filed a complaint with Cambodian police and her family had been trying to find them since.
She said that she was informed on Friday by the Cambodian immigration police that the maid had, on March 17, crossed the border via the Aranyaprathet border checkpoint with the boys.
She said that her ex-husband, who held both American and Cambodian passports, might have conspired with the maid.
Thai officials took her to file a complaint with the Klong Leuk police.
She said she and her ex-husband had been divorced for more than a year and the Cambodian Court had granted her custody of the children.
Benjapol said initial police probe had found that the maid had entered Thailand with the boys but there was no record of them leaving Thailand yet.
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