You shouldn’t be surprised
A woman in Kanchanaburi says she was shocked when the wife-beater husband she fled six years ago meted out similar harsh punishment to their son.
Social media activist Guntouch Pongpaiboonwe (aka Guntouch Jompalang) last week took Kanyarat (no surname given), 29, and her son, Nong Thai, 11, to police after the boy fled his abusive father and travelled across the province to seek his mother’s help.
Kanyarat contacted Mr Guntouch after her son came to explain his plight. He said his father, Niphat, 34, who lives in Bo Phloi district, had been beating him regularly and forcing him to work to pay for Niphat’s gambling and drug habit.
Kanyarat said she had two children with Mr Niphat, a daughter aged 13, and their son, Nong Thai. She left her husband six years ago after he abused her.
“He abused me virtually every day after the first couple of…
