PHETCHABURI – A woman has filed a complaint with the police accusing her husband of poisoning their two children.
Nit Faa-Kanong, 23, filed the complaint with the police on Thursday after her daughter, 7, and son, 5, consumed soda drinks allegedly mixed with insecticide by her husband.
The girl died but the boy is reported to be recovering in intensive care at a hospital in Tha Yang district.
Mrs Nit told police that her husband, Suwin Pinphet, 39, on Thursday night asked a neighbour to inform her that her children had consumed insecticide and her daughter had died and her son been rushed to a hospital.
She said she did not believe her children would drink insecticide on their own. She said her husband was a jealous man and often became violent when she talked to another man.
She said recently he threatened her that she would not be able to see her children again if she continued to make friends with other men.
Mrs Nit told police that she took her children to live in another house that they own after the latest fight between them.
“Prior to the incident he took the kids home with him and told me that he would send them back in couple of days,” she told police.
“My husband used to keep unknown substances mixed up in several soda bottles in the refrigerator and forbade me and the children from going near it.”
She said she took the bottles out and threw the contents away because she did not know if they were safe and was worried that the children might drink from the bottles.
Police later arrested Mr Suwin and raided his house. They found several soda bottles and a pack of unidentified pills and two suicide notes.
He admitted having filled the soda bottles with insecticide, but claimed he was the person who threw the bottles out into the backyard because because he did not want his children to drink them by mistake, police said.
He said the children themselves found the bottles in the backyard and drank the poison on their own.
However, according to police, he refused to tell them why he filled the bottles with insecticide in the first place.
He also denied trying to poison his own children.
Police said they have not charged the suspect yet and were waiting for a statement from the five-year-old son after he recovers.