Cops find holes in mum’s statements


Siti Salmy Suib

KUALA LUMPUR: Police are looking into the possibility of charging the mother of Siti Soffea Emelda Abdullah with negligence after the two-year-old was abducted and beheaded by a man near the Klang River on Thursday night.

A source in the investigation said irregularities had emerged in the statement given by the girl’s mother, Siti Salmy Suib, 32, who alleged that she left her child with her friends because she had to use the rest room at the Kota Raya shopping complex at 3pm.

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