Part II – History Prior to Flight/Separation
The prior history is mainly provided by the mother and caregivers.
The parents met and cohabited in the camp in January 2002 and the child was born in the camp on 24 October 2002. When the child turned 8 months old, the parents were separated and at the same time, the mother went out to work and left the child with the caregivers (the maternal uncle and his wife). According to the mother, the parents always had the arguments and the father was drinking and gambling and he also physically abused the mother. After the mother left the child with the caregivers, she never contacted or asked about the child and the child who was a small baby then was carefully raised by the caregivers through thick and thin. The mother somehow came back to the camp sometimes in between but she did not feel attached to the child and she was not willing to give affection to the child as well.
While the mother was staying outside, she cohabited with a Thai partner called Suk Jit in kanchanaburi in 2003 and they had a son called Saw Hser Nay Htoo who was born in Kanchanaburi on 16 June 2008. The mother then separated with Suk Jit in April 2011 and the mother came back to the camp with her son Saw Hser Nay Htoo. The mother then met her current partner Tee Bo (THI030014) in Ban Bor when she went out again and they cohabited during the end of 2011. Tee Bo was separated from his previous partner and the mother has three step children; Eh Hser Htee, Naw Hae May and Saw Pay Say. They later came back to stay in the camp in May 2012 and the mother had two children with Tee Bo; The Lwee Htoo and Paw Lway Moo who were born in the camp in July 2012 and September 2014 respectively.