Kuala Lumpur police chief Rusdi Isa said that based on a preliminary post-mortem report, the boy sustained 20 injuries on his body.

“The cause of death was blunt force trauma,” he said at a press conference.

According to Rusdi, the 25-year-old babysitter took the child to Kuala Lumpur Hospital yesterday morning, where he was already unconscious when a doctor attended to him.

The doctor then lodged a police report after checking the boy’s condition.

Preliminary investigations revealed that the boy’s 27-year-old mother, a single parent, had been sending him to the babysitter in Kepong since January.

The couple has been remanded until Friday. Both suspects tested negative for drugs.

Separately, the investigation paper on two policemen, aged 44 and 34, over their alleged theft of RM300,000, has been submitted to Bukit Aman, Rusdi said.

He added that both suspects had been temporarily transferred to the Cheras and Dang Wangi police headquarters pending the outcome of the case.

On a case involving a female activist who claimed she was sexually harassed by a policeman at the Wangsa Maju police station, Rusdi said the investigation paper was referred to the Bukit Aman federal police headquarters before being submitted to the Attorney-General’s Chambers.

The activist went to the police station last month to have her statement recorded over her participation in a pro-Palestine rally the previous month.

She claimed that a policeman had asked her to follow him into a small cubicle after she had asked to go to the toilet.

The activist alleged that the policeman said he wanted to teach her how to lock the door, which she noted was “just an ordinary latch”.

Rusdi today also said police seized RM11.53 million worth of various drugs, including methamphetamine and ketamine, during raids on four premises in the Klang Valley on Feb 26.

They arrested four people aged between 26 and 42 during the raids.