Thailand’s Missing Children: What You Need To Know

Statistics show that the number of missing children has increased in the past five years.

Child abduction is still a large concern in Thailand with the perpetrator often being a repeat offender. The mother of a missing girl, nicknamed Cartoon, opened up for the first time in 10 years to stop any more children getting kidnapped.

The Mirror Foundation is collaborating with police to raise public awareness of missing children before National Children’s Day this Saturday, January 13.

At the Child and Women’s Welfare Supervision Division (DDS) on Phan Fa Road, Bangkok at 10.30am today, January 11, Police Lieutenant Colonel Marod Kwanmuang, Deputy Superintendent of the Royal Thai Police, and Ekkalak Lumchomkhae, Head of the Missing Persons Information Center announced the statistics of missing children for last year.

Tukkata (nickname), the mother of a…