Girl, 14, hangs her one-year-old baby ‘because she wanted to spend time with her friends’

A fourteen-year-old girl hanged her one-year-old son because she wanted to spend time with her friends, it has been reported. 

The teenager, Arisa Udsanee, had left the youngster with her parents who were angry when she returned home late in Bueng Kan, northeast Thailand last Sunday afternoon.

She reportedly took the infant, Thanapat Udsanee, to the home of a neighbour, Charinthip Nuengsit, 21, and asked for a place to stay. She then let them stay in a cabin in her back yard.

Later that night a motorcycle came to the cabin to pick up Arisa and she told Charinthip that the boy was leaving with her.

Officers later arrested the boy’s mother and made her do a crime reconstruction, using a Winnie The Pooh bear to show how she allegedly hanged the boy then concealed the body

However, on Wednesday morning Charinthip checked the cabin and found a dead baby hidden under a pram and covered in ants. Paramedics believed the boy had been dead for at least two days.

Officers later arrested the boy’s mother and made her do a crime reconstruction, using a Winnie The Pooh bear to show how she allegedly hanged the boy then concealed the body.

Arisa allegedly admitted killing her son as she was angry at her own parents for scolding her for staying out late. She said she resented the infant for preventing her from spending time with her own friends.

She said: ‘I rode my father-in-law’s motorcycle out to see my friends and stay with them for three days. I left the boy at home with my mother and father.

‘After I came back, my father was angry and slapped me. It hurt my feelings so I took my boy out to stay at the neighbour’s cabin.

‘I spent two hours crying and thinking about what I should do with my life and my son’s life and came to a conclusion that I should end his life. 

Arisa (pictured) allegedly admitted killing her son as she was angry at her own parents for scolding her for staying out late. She said she resented the infant for preventing her from spending time with her own friends

‘I hid the body under the pram and called my friend to pick me up and run away. Then when I went back to see the body I was arrested.’

She added that she watched him wriggle for a few minutes until he died.  

Arisa’s devastated mother Penprapha Prakarapang, 40, said her daughter always went out without coming back for several days but this time it had caused the family a problem.

Arisa’s devastated mother Penprapha Prakarapang, 40, said her daughter always went out without coming back for several days but this time it had caused the family a problem

Police Major Chanchai Poolonkaew said her crime was serious and she must be punished. Pictured: the family at the scene of the alleged murder. The Winnie The Pooh represents the baby that was concealed under the pram

She said: ‘My daughter always goes out for several days and spends time with her friends while leaving her son at home with us.

‘The reason we were upset this time was that she took my husband’s motorcycle for three days and he couldn’t go to work.

‘I understand that she wanted to live her life like a normal teenager but murdering her son for that it is unforgivable.’

Police Major Chanchai Poolonkaew said her crime was serious and she must be punished.

He said: ‘The girl murdered her son so she will have to spend time in prison for 15 to 20 years. It’s not possible to stop that now. The legal process has started. She has admitted the crime and will go to jail.’