Women Kills,Then Cooks And Eats Her Sons

Posted: 08/21/2012

A Thai mother has been accused of killing, cooking and eating her sons because she thought they were pigs, the Bangkok Post reports. Hallucinations may have played a role in the tragic crime.

Police received a complaint last week that the woman, a member of the Musur hilltribe in Thailand’s northernmost district of Chiang Mai, Mae Ai, allegedly “butchered” her two sons, ages 1 and 5, and proceeded to cook and eat them. According to the Bangkok Post, law enforcement officials allegedly found the woman asleep with several body parts strewn around her. Later, they reportedly learned she had been treated for mental illness since 2007.

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A previous report from the Bangkok Post said that the woman stopped taking her medicine one or two months ago. A hospital report said the woman suffered from hallucinations and thought someone was coming to hurt her.

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Hallucinating Thai mother kills, cooks and eats her young sons because she thought they were pigs

• Woman has been suffering psychiatric problems since 2007 and was ‘off medication’ at the time of the incident
• Found asleep and surrounded by body parts

By Sara Malm

PUBLISHED:09:49 EST, 22 August 2012| UPDATED:10:21 EST, 22 August 2012

A Thai woman accused of butchering and eating her two young sons has claimed she was hallucinating and thought they were pigs.

She allegedly cooked and ate her sons aged one and five and was found by police sleeping in her home surrounded by body parts.

The woman is a member of the Musur hill tribe who live in the mountainous region of Chiang Main near the Burmese border.

Upon her arrest, police in the Mae Ai district of Chiang Mai discovered that the woman had received treatment for mental illness in 2007 and had recently stopped taking her medication.

‘The woman killed her children because she didn’t continue her treatment and didn’t take her medication,’ Mental Health Department deputy director general Dr Kiattiphum Wongrachit told Bangkok Post yesterday.

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