Orphans in Indonesia

[ALHOLK]

Hi!

 

I find this story quite interesting. I have not seen anything about it in the Swedish newspapers. If it really did happen it should have made the front page on every major Swedish newspapers.

 

regards

 

ALHOLK

[Pescator]

Hi Alholk,

 

web page

 

In danish, but I am sure you understand that.

Mistaken identity it seems - as well as nationality

 

Cheers

Hua Nguu

[Nervous_Dog]

go to the nation or bangkok post on line, you can follow the story for the last 3 days.

 

DOG

[Coss]

More on this: web page

 

""Kidnap fears allayed

 

AP

 

PHUKET, Thailand -- Police on Wednesday praised a German man and called him a hero for giving shelter to tsunami victims, clearing him of suggestions that he was linked to the disappearance of a Swedish boy missing since the disaster. A child matching the description of 12-year-old Kristian Walker was seen a day after the tsunamis struck on Dec. 26, leaving Taimuang hospital in devastated Phang Nga province with an unidentified foreign man. That sparked suggestions Kristian may have been kidnapped.

 

But police said yesterday that Stephan Kayser of Munich, Germany, had been questioned and cleared.

 

Police Sgt. Vichai Boonruen said police had confirmed Kayser's account that he had helped seven people, including a Swedish boy named Martin Samerud, who later was reunited with his mother. A Thai health official said Kristian Walker was never admitted to any hospital in Thailand.

 

"We have ruled out the theory that this man kidnapped anyone," Vichai said.

 

Police brought Kayser and his wife Annette from their home in badly hit Phang Nga province to meet with a throng of media in Phuket.

 

The couple said they have lived in Thailand about half a year of each of the last five years in a house about five kilometres from the beach and not far from the hospital. It was unscathed by the tsunamis, so they wanted to help out.

 

They initially took in two German couples and their two children who had no other place to stay except the hospital.

 

On another trip to the hospital they met Martin, who they said has shoulder-length blond hair and only a slight resemblance to fellow Swede, Kristian.

 

"His parents were missing and he had no bed of his own. He was lying in the bed of some huge, strange man and there were two Swedish people who were not injured" looking after him, Annetta Kayser said.

 

The Swedish men asked Kayser if he and his wife would look after Martin if the doctors said the boy could leave.

 

"We asked the boy whether he wanted to come and he wanted to, and the next morning we brought him back," Annetta Kayser said, noting that Martin was reunited with his mother then.

 

"A happy ending, but his father is on the list of the dead," she added.

 

Kristian's grandfather, Daniel Walker of Vero Beach, Florida, attended the news conference and said Kayser had "absolutely zero" to do with his grandson.

 

Vichai Thienthavorn, permanent secretary of the Thai Public Health Ministry, earlier told reporters that Kristian never showed up in Taimuang or any other hospital in Thailand.

 

Kristian and his mother Madeleine remain missing. They had been on vacation with Kristian's brother David, 14, and sister Anna, 7, who were found and are back home in Sweden.

 

In the wake of the devastating tsunami, there have been unconfirmed reports of dozens of orphaned children being taken by unidentified people, some of them possibly child traffickers. ""

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I note that in this last paragraph that the media still want to find a story on this and have left the reader with "unconfirmed", 'unidentified", "possibly".

 

If they can find some of these scum, then let's string 'em up! But until then I wish they'd not add to the sorrow and grief that is already present by spreading unsubstantiated and distressing bullshit.

 

 

Cheers

 

Coss