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Abuse catches up with pair

A seven-year-old boy rescued from a violent home has dispelled doubts over who was responsible for a savage beating early this month.

Nong Meelo, now in the care of a welfare home in Nakhon Phanom after his birth father laid a police complaint that his birth mother and stepfather had abused the boy, upheld his father’s version of events.

He said the pair had rounded on him in a “scrum”, as one Thai news report put it, beating him and kicking him on Feb 3 until bruises covered his body. The domestic drama captured news headlines last week.

Earlier, his mother, Sudarat “Lhin” Muntha, 27, told police she alone was responsible for assaulting the child, saying she wanted to punish him for stealing.

She denied her husband and the boy’s stepfather, Suwat “Man” Kingsamut, 33, with whom she sells lottery tickets behind Wat Phra…