The missing baby that wasn’t, phone con, Mali’s tar tales

Police are taking criminal action against a woman who laid a false complaint alleging a Chon Buri hospital had misplaced her baby, after she duped her family into thinking she had given birth.

Piyarat Puibuakor, aged 37, and her husband, Panya Kankeow, 29, complained to Chon Buri police on Dec 7 claiming Chon Buri hospital had lost their baby daughter, after the newborn was supposedly transferred to its care on Oct 11.

They said a nurse from the hospital, who kept in touch throughout the two months in which the little girl was receiving care, had called them on Dec 2 to pick up the child, as she was ready to go home.

Ms Piyarat claimed she gave birth at the province’s Banglamung hospital on Oct 11 but the child, who had ingested amniotic fluid, was weak and…