Police divers continued their search in a canal for the third consecutive day today (Wednesday) for the missing 8-month-old baby who was disposed of there, according to his teenage mother. No trace of the infant was found.
Ten air tanks were prepared for the divers, each of whom took turns in the murky water for about 30 minutes, said Pol Col Suthee Wannasoot, superintendent of Bang Luang police station in Bang Len district of Nakhon Pathom province.
A diver admitted that the visibility underwater is very poor and that they had to use their sense of touch, adding that there are many submerged obstacles below the surface.
Meanwhile, police have decided to postpone a plan to throw a dead pig into the canal, to simulate the teenager mother’s claimed act of putting the baby into the waterway, at the recommendation of officials of the Royal Irrigation Department.
The officials said they will make calculations of the current speed, volume of water in the canal and the amount of water hyacinth first, to determine the whereabouts of the baby, if he was actually disposed of as claimed.
The teenage mother, Nim, has been charged with manslaughter, concealing or destroying a body and giving false statements to the police. She is currently remanded on bail by the Juvenile and Family Court of Nakhon Pathom province.
