News Forum - Drunk man holds baby hostage at knifepoint to get his wife back

[Thaiger]

Police in Samut Prakan or in an intense standoff for the drunken father who took his eight month old baby hostage. The man had been estranged from his wife who left to travel to the provinces. After apparently visiting his own parents, he grabbed a kitchen knife and his infant child in the middle of the night yesterday. North Samrong Police officers received word of the kidnapping 2.30am and rushed to the scene Bang Muang sub-district of the Bangkok suburb province. The police confronted the man in a car park in Soi Patraniwet and the incident was captured on video […]

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[gazmo16]

After this incident and previous  beatings from the husband she should definitely take the baby and run . Count this as a very lucky escape this time. 

[BangkokBruce]

12 hours ago, Thaiger said:

Police in Samut Prakan or in an intense standoff for the drunken father who took his eight month old baby hostage. The man had been estranged from his wife who left to travel to the provinces. After apparently visiting his own parents, he grabbed a kitchen knife and his infant child in the middle of the night yesterday. North Samrong Police officers received word of the kidnapping 2.30am and rushed to the scene Bang Muang sub-district of the Bangkok suburb province. The police confronted the man in a car park in Soi Patraniwet and the incident was captured on video […]

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Is this a thing because I hear that Thai women are usually the breadwinners in the family and the men just stay at home and drink. Is this really true?

[BillO]

Being drunk always seems to be the central theme in these domestic violence cases. What is it with Thais and their inability to hold their liquor? Why is there such an alcohol problem in this country? 

[Soidog]

44 minutes ago, BangkokBruce said:

Is this a thing because I hear that Thai women are usually the breadwinners in the family and the men just stay at home and drink. Is this really true?

It would be wrong to generalise on such an issue. I know many Thai men who work their ass off to provide for their families and are great husbands and fathers. However, it is true that once you get out in to the provinces and more rural villages where local work is hard to come by, it seems the responsibility to put food on the table is often left to the women. They are the ones you will see working in the factories and rice fields. The women take the more sensible and pragmatic view that somehow they need to find away to make money. Too often the husbands and the sons turn to other ways to get through the day. Drinking Lao Khao or dealing drugs. I certainly wouldn’t say it’s a majority, but it’s a significant minority. 

[BJoe]

WTF, does this article imply that there is a question as to whether charges would be filed,  or “what” charges would be filed ? But then, this type of incident is fairly common  in Thailand . I mean the wife being the primary rice winner, and the husband being a useless drunk.