Among the preschoolers who were slain at a day care center in Thailand was 4-year-old Plai Fon. In Thai, it means “the end of the rainy season” _ a time of happiness. In its place is an unfathomable agony.
“I want to get my daughter back to hold a ceremony as soon as I can,” she wailed, tears pouring from her red eyes. “All this insurance money, I don’t want it. I just want her back for the funeral.”
Tukta and her husband work on the family’s rice farm during the growing season, making around $2,600 a year if they are lucky. They take odd jobs on their free days to bolster their income. The couple and their children share a house with Tukta’s mother-in-law and bed-ridden father-in-law. Moving to a bigger city for better jobs has been impossible because of their need to care for their young children and aging parents.
On Friday, as Tukta waited for her daughter’s body, she found herself contemplating the horror Plai Fon must have endured in her final moments. Families who emerged from the temple spoke of seeing massive cuts on their children. Many screamed. Some fainted.
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