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Down Syndrome boy watches over dead father for week
Teerarak Suthathiwong
A nine-year-old boy with Down Syndrome kept watch over the body
of his dead British father for nearly a week until police discovered the
body in East Pattaya.
Officers and Sawang Boriboon Thammasathan officers were called to the
Soi Khao Talo home of Robert Sorenson, 36, April 26. Police broke
through the locked door to find Sorenson’s decomposing body in a back
room and a shocked Luke Attiroot Soronson nearby.
Officers are unsure whether the developmentally challenged boy was aware
his father was dead. Sorenson had been dead five to seven days,
officials estimated.
Neighbor Weawdao Stromberg, 27, called police after hearing the boy
crying and detecting the foul odor. She said Sorenson had been raising
the boy since his mother left several years ago.
Pol. Lt. Col. Vinai Horhin stated that from initial examination of the
body, he believes that Robert must have died from an illness or due to
suffocation because of the heat and there is no air conditioning within
the house leading to shock and eventually death.
The body was sent to the Forensic Institute to determine the cause of
death while the child was taken in by a foreign neighbor.
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