For reasons we may never understand, parents sometimes abandon their babies shortly after birth. In the United States, we have laws protecting parents who safely surrender their infants. Even so, we still hear stories about people finding newborn babies alone in strange places. A lucky few survive, but more often than not, the stories end in heartbreak. Thankfully, for a newborn baby in Thailand, someone heard her cries and likely saved her life.
According to The Sun, a housekeeper in an office building noticed a strange sound coming from the pipes on November 15, 2025. The worker looked in a toilet tank and found a newborn baby stuffed inside with water partially covering her body. Miraculously, she was alive. Emergency crews rushed to the scene and rescued the infant.
“The baby girl was under a day old. She was a newborn but there was no sign of the mother,” Police Captain Kritsada Saikhong said, per the newspaper. “We will proceed with the investigation to find who left the baby girl in the toilet.”
Investigators will look at surveillance footage in hopes of identifying the infant’s parents. If convicted, the parents could face up to three years in prison and a fine.
⚠️WARNING: This post describes the abandonment of a newborn baby.
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A newborn baby girl has been found alive after being stuffed inside a toilet cistern in an office building in Bangkok, Thailand.
A housekeeper cleaning the third floor on November 15 heard the infant crying. When… pic.twitter.com/YFoL8rqqyi
Thailand does not have the same laws as the United States protecting parents who might want to voluntarily surrender their baby. Instead, the law strictly prohibits the act.
In Thailand, a parent may not “abandon a child at a nursery or health care facility, or with a person employed to look after the child, or at a public place or any other place, with the intention of not taking him or her back,” per Thailand Law Online.
This story could have had a much more tragic ending. We are glad that the child is OK but heartbroken for the parents who left her behind. Without knowing their story, it’s hard to understand why they came to such a desperate decision. Hopefully, this baby girl will grow up in a loving home and never know how she came into the world.
