He said the girl had been admitted to the Sultan Abdul Halim Hospital (HSAH).

“She is reported in good condition and has begun talking. She is also taking her food orally now,” he said when contacted by Bernama.

Last Wednesday, a police team found the decomposing body of a two-year-old boy wrapped in a blanket and placed in a fish box at a Paya Nahu flat unit in Sungai Petani.

Police made the discovery when the victim’s 26-year-old mother informed them of the boy’s body after her four-year-old daughter was sent to hospital for treatment for alleged abuse.

Meanwhile, in Pendang, Kedah executive council member, Suraya Yaacob said the Social Welfare Department was prepared to hand over the four-year-old girl to her grandmother if the woman could take care of the child.

She said that if possible, the Social Welfare Department did not want to take over guardianship of the child as she still had her next-of-kin and family.

Suraya, who is the State Women Development, Agriculture and Agro-based Industry, Entrepreneur Development and Social Welfare Committee chairman said this to reporters when met after launching the state-level Family and Community Engagement (FACE) programme in Felda Sungai Tiang today.