Chonburi provincial police have arrested a couple soon after they stopped their scheduled funeral of a 2-year-old boy following an intervention by the Paveena Hongsakul Foundation on suspicion that the boy might die from serious abuse.

Mrs Paveena Hongsakul, chairwoman of the foundation, immediately rang up Chonburi’s Bang Lamung district police chief to stop the funeral of the boy at a temple after his mother came to her foundation on Wednesday seeking for help in investigating the death of her son whom she hired a babysitter in Bang Lamung to take care of at 200 baht per day.

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