The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) has remanded a babysitter in Ipoh, Perak after a 6-month-old baby girl died at the Intensive Care Pediatric Unit of the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital on Friday (14 July).
As reported by BERNAMA, the baby girl was suspected to have been abused by her babysitter, a local woman, in Taman Tawas Indah in Perak.
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The baby was unconscious when she was brought to the hospital in an ambulance by the babysitter on 12 July and was in a coma for 2 days.
According to Ipoh district police chief ACP Yahaya Hassan, the doctors suspected that the baby had been abused after finding bruises on her body. Furthermore, post-mortem results on the deceased showed that the 6-month-old baby’s cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head.
Ipoh district police chief, ACP Yahaya Hassan
The babysitter had been looking after the baby since March 2023 as both her parents were working in Australia.
The babysitter has been remanded for four days since 13 July 2023 and is now being investigated under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder.
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