KUALA LUMPUR: Police have confirmed that the death of an eight-month-old baby boy at a childcare centre in Taman Kelemak Utama on Friday (Sept 6) was due to suffocation.
Alor Gajah OCPD Supt Ashari Abu Samah said they received a post-mortem report for the victim on Friday.
"The examination found no other injuries on the body of the eight-month-old baby," he said when contacted on Saturday (Sept 7).
The media reported that the victim’s father, Major Mohd Fikry Amri Abdul Halim, 39, claimed that his baby was stuffed with a milk bottle, covered with a cloth, and smothered with a pillow by a babysitter based on closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage at the childcare centre.
Mohd Fikry Amri said his wife had to rush their baby, who was unconscious, bleeding from the mouth, and his face bluish, to the hospital after being informed by the childcare centre.
An Ayer Keroh Magistrate’s Court has placed the babysitter on a seven-day remand to assist in the investigation under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder. – Bernama
