Sunday, Aug 26, 2012
THAILAND - She allegedly butchered, cooked and ate her sons.
The Thai woman is believed to have hallucinated and killed her two sons, aged one and five, after thinking that they were pigs.
After receiving a complaint last week, police officers turned up at her home in Chiang Mai's Mae Ai district and found her asleep - with several body parts near her.
The woman, whose name was withheld, is a member of the Musur hill tribe, which lives in a mountainous region near Myanmar.
She was taken in for questioning but did not respond to any of the police's questions, reported the Bangkok Post.
Mental illness
Checks revealed that she had been treated for a mental illness in 2007. A hospital report stated that she suffered from hallucinations and believed someone wanted to hurt her.
The woman's husband had left her alone with the children for a few days to get her medication. The husband said: "I never imagined that something like this would happen."
She has been charged with murder but was sent to Suan Prung Hospital for treatment after she was deemed mentally unfit to fight her case.
She will be kept under close watch in the hospital for a long time as doctors believe she has yet to realise that she killed her children, said Mental Health Department deputy director general Kiattiphum Wongrachit on Tuesday. The hospital will also check if she is a drug addict, he said.
"The woman killed her children because she didn't continue her treatment and didn't take her medication," Dr Kiattiphum said.
An unusually large number of crimes involving cannibalism have occurred across the globe in recent months.
In May, Miami man Rudy Eugene was shot and killed after eating a homeless man's face.
In June, Canadian "porn star cannibal" Luka Magnotta was arrested after allegedly filming himself chopping up his Chinese lover before posting parts of the body to politicians.
THAILAND - She allegedly butchered, cooked and ate her sons.
The Thai woman is believed to have hallucinated and killed her two sons, aged one and five, after thinking that they were pigs.
After receiving a complaint last week, police officers turned up at her home in Chiang Mai's Mae Ai district and found her asleep - with several body parts near her.
The woman, whose name was withheld, is a member of the Musur hill tribe, which lives in a mountainous region near Myanmar.
She was taken in for questioning but did not respond to any of the police's questions, reported the Bangkok Post.
Mental illness
Checks revealed that she had been treated for a mental illness in 2007. A hospital report stated that she suffered from hallucinations and believed someone wanted to hurt her.
The woman's husband had left her alone with the children for a few days to get her medication. The husband said: "I never imagined that something like this would happen."
She has been charged with murder but was sent to Suan Prung Hospital for treatment after she was deemed mentally unfit to fight her case.
She will be kept under close watch in the hospital for a long time as doctors believe she has yet to realise that she killed her children, said Mental Health Department deputy director general Kiattiphum Wongrachit on Tuesday. The hospital will also check if she is a drug addict, he said.
"The woman killed her children because she didn't continue her treatment and didn't take her medication," Dr Kiattiphum said.
An unusually large number of crimes involving cannibalism have occurred across the globe in recent months.
In May, Miami man Rudy Eugene was shot and killed after eating a homeless man's face.
In June, Canadian "porn star cannibal" Luka Magnotta was arrested after allegedly filming himself chopping up his Chinese lover before posting parts of the body to politicians.
