ALOR GAJAH, Sept 7 — An eight-month-old baby boy is believed to have died at a nursery school (Taska) in Taman Kelemak Utama yesterday morning.
Alor Gajah District Police Chief Supt Ashari Abu Samah said following that, a 34-year-old married woman with three children was detained at the nursery at 3.30pm to assist in the investigations.
Earlier, the police received a call from a woman from the emergency ward of the Alor Gajah Hospital, who reported receiving an eight-month-old baby boy patient in an unconscious state.
“According to initial investigations, the baby was sent to the nursery by his mother and grandfather at around 7.05am before the victim's mother received a call from the nursery informing her that the victim's body had turned blue, his nose was bleeding, and the victim was in a state of drooping.
“The victim was immediately taken to the Alor Gajah Hospital and the doctor confirmed his death before an autopsy was performed at around 6pm,” he said in a statement yesterday night.
Meanwhile, the baby's father Major Mohd Fikry Amri Abd Halim, 39, said his son Muhammad Al Fateh Amri had only been sent to the Nursery for five days now.
When his wife Sabrina Hakiem Zaini, 39, arrived at the nursery after being contacted, she found their son already limp with a bloody mouth and a bluish face.
The child's death was devastating to the couple, as they had tried to conceive for the past 13 years, only for this tragedy to occur.
“It has only been five days since I sent my son and this is what happened,” he said tearfully.
Fikry, based at the Sungai Besi Perdana Camp in Kuala Lumpur, said he was shocked at finding out that the nursery did not have a licence even though it had been operating for four years.
“I was under the impression that the nursery had been operating with a licence but during police investigations, it was revealed that apparently there is none, and that is what I am very upset about,” he told the press at the Alor Gajah Hospital Forensic Unit.
— Bernama
