BUKIT MERTAJAM: A 52-year-old woman has been detained by the police over the death of an 18-month-old baby under her care in Taman Seri Juru.
Central Seberang Prai OCPD Asst Comm Shafee Abd Samad said the woman was arrested at about 10pm on Tuesday at her house following a report lodged by the Seberang Jaya Hospital on the baby’s death.
“Checks found that the incident happened in the toilet on the ground floor of a double-storey house. The baby was the woman’s grandniece.
“The woman has been taking care of the child for the past month from 10am to 6pm, Mondays to Fridays, ” he said yesterday.
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An 18-month-old baby, who was found unconscious while in the care of a babysitter in Malaysia, was declared dead at a hospital Tuesday.
The child had been admitted to Seberang Jaya Hospital in Bukit Mertajam. The babysitter s daughter called an ambulance Tuesday morning from the house at Taman Seri Juru, senior police officer Shafee Abd Samad told the Star. The daughter saw her mother holding the unconscious toddler and called an ambulance, but the child was pronounced dead at 1pm, he said in a statement Wednesday.
The babysitter, who has not been identified, is also the aunt of the toddler s mother. The 52-year-old woman had been taking care of the child for the past month from 10 am to 6 pm, Mondays to Fridays.