Baby abandoned at villager’s doorstep, with poignant note


Blissfully unaware: Baby Yusof is now in hospital care pending investigation.

KOTA KINABALU: A mother, apparently desperate to see her newborn son have a better life, left him at a villager’s doorstep in Kota Belud some 70km from here early Sunday (June 30).

The mother left a note asking for a woman of the house, a “Sumarti”, to care for her child whom she had named Yusof (pic, above).

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