A 42 year old lady motorcycle taxi driver in Pratamnack Pattaya was left literally holding the baby when the Thai woman whom she had befriended left the baby in her care whilst she went to do an errand and failed to return.
The Motorbike Taxi Driver Khun Samai who works from a taxi stand close to The Royal Cliff Beach Resort in Pratamnack arrived at Pattaya Police Station with a seven day old baby boy wrapped with a towel, wearing a red cap and baby clothes asking the police for help.
The mother of the child, known only as “Kay” aged about had given birth to the healthy baby just a week ago. The father of the baby was believed to be an Iranian guy. Kay and the Iranian guy had been having problems and she was living alone when she had the child. She was skint and told her taxi driver friend that she was going to the Iranian guys room to retrieve some clothes and try to get some money so she could return up country with her new born baby.
Khun Samai waited for hours but the mother did not return. She went to the woman's rented room at the Veena Guest House near The Pattaya Provincial Court on Tappraya Road but could not find her.
The police tried to place the baby with the Child and Women’s Shelter in Banglamung, unfortunately they were unable to take the child at which point a trusted volunteer lady was brought in to take the baby and care for him for a few days until either they can find an organisation who can take charge of the abandoned baby or maybe the mother will turn up to claim her child.
