Police have reported a daughter has abandoned her 80-year-old father at a temple in northeastern Thailand then just drove away with her partner. The elderly man was later confirmed to be infected with Covid-19.
A Facebook user said to be a medical worker at Bua Yai Hospital posted pictures of an old man lying on a trail near Wat Pa Suan Thamma Sawaddee in Ban Nong Waeng village of Bua Lai district of Nakhon Ratchasima, on Monday.
The pictures were accompanied by written condemnation of a daughter’s abandonment of her elderly father.
Luang Phor Sitthichai, abbot of Wat Pa Suan Thamma Sawaddee, told police that a daugter and her partner brought the 80-year-old man to the temple on Sunday. They said that her father lived in Khon Khaen province and wanted to stay with him at the temple with his friend.
Then the daughter and her partner left the old man with his cloth…
