The husband, Witthawat Jitthanopajai, 21, also faced murder charges for allegedly suffocating the son by a previous marriage of his wife, Kanchana Thetsawang, 22. After learning the baby was Kanchana’s son, the police tracked down and arrested the couple at 10pm on Monday at their rented room at an apartment building in Pathum Thani’s Thanyaburi district. Kanchana told police her son was born during a previous marriage, but she had remarried after her first husband died about six months ago. Kanchana said she had left the baby with Witthawat, an Army private, when she left home to work and came back to find that her son had died. Witthawat told police that when the baby cried, he had wrapped him in a blanket, put him under a pillow and laid down on top of the baby.

Source: The Nation Bangkok September 11, 2018 03:32 UTC