ALOR GAJAH :An eight-month-old baby boy is believed to have died at a taska (nursery) in Taman Kelemak Utama here yesterday.
Alor Gajah district police chief Ashari Abu Samah said a 34-year-woman, who has three children, was detained at the nursery to assist in the investigations.
The woman was later remanded for a week for further investigations.
Hee said police had earlier received a call from an individual at the Alor Gajah Hospital, who reported that an eight-month-old baby boy had been brought in to the emergency ward 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 and his nose was bleeding and the victim was in a state of drooping.
“The victim was immediately taken to the Alor Gajah Hospital where the doctor confirmed that the child had died. An autopsy was later carried out,” he said in a statement last night.
The baby’s father Fikry Amri Abd Halim, 39, said his son Al Fateh Amri had only been sent to the nursery over the past five days.
He said when his wife Sabrina Hakiem Zaini, 39, rushed to the nursery she found their son limp with a bloody mouth and a bluish face.
“It’s only been five days since I sent my son and this is what happened,” he said when met by reporters at the Alor Gajah Hospital forensic unit last night.
Fikry, an army officer based at the Sungai Besi Perdana Camp in Kuala Lumpur, said what surprised him more was when he found out that the nursery did not have a licence even though it had been operating for four years.
“I was under the impression the nursery had been operating with a licence. However, police investigations revealed that it did not have a licence and that has made me even more upset,” he added.
What’s even more heartbreaking was that the couple had waited 13 years to get a child that they had dreamed of and didn’t expect such a tragedy to happen after his wife had even taken unpaid leave to take care of the child.