14 year old Thai mom losing her 4 month old baby; a sad story of a girl victim of sexual abuse
Date: 30/10/2014
A sad story about a 14 year-old mom in northeastern Thailand losing her 4 month old baby. She is a victim of sexual abuse and the lack of sexual and reproductive health education. Is this a right time for us in the Thai society to seriously tackle the adolescent pregnancy issue? "If not today then when?"
There was a news report in local media about a 14 year-old mom in Roiet province in northeastern Thailand losing her 4 month-old baby boy from heart disease. Her baby actually is smaller than normal baby at his age due to early birth and possibly the lack of care during pregnant period.
This girl got pregnancy from sexual abuse. When she was at grade 2 in the secondary school, she went out at night with her friends for fun and she was left among a group of man who work as house or building painting worker. She has been forced to have sexual relation with one among them. Later she became pregnant and has to leave her school. Her father has taken her home and taken care of her until her labor day.
The baby, male, wasn’t healthy at birth partly as he was delivered earlier than schedule. The girl mom lived with her farther, and the man who abused her came to live with her. Recently, the girl has to take her baby to hospital in nearby province, Mahasarakam, for further checking up on his health condition. The man who became husband, went there with her but has gone soon after, leaving her and the baby going back home on their own. He called later and cited he has to go for work in another province for making money for living.
Soon after that the baby was sick and the girl child mom took him to Roiet Hospital. Sadly that the baby was died later on heart failure.
The girl's farther wanted to go for legal action against the man who abused his daughter but drop his intention later after the girl asked for forgiveness, citing that she still loves her baby’s father. The teen mom and her father gave the baby’s body to the hospital for proceeding as they don’t have ability to do funeral arrangement. The father of the teen mom wanted his daughter to go back to school for continue education but he will look for new school so people there don’t know about his daughter’s story.
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