Monday September 20, 2010
20-year-old student ‘rescues’ her own baby
JITRA: Police saw through the ruse of a 20-year-old student who pretended that she found an infant behind her house when in reality, she had abandoned the baby girl after giving birth. The student from a higher education institution in Selangor had initially claimed that she found the infant with her umbilical cord still attached behind her house at Taman Rasa Sayang here at about 5pm on Saturday.
She claimed that she heard the baby crying from behind her house when she was taking a bath. She rescued the baby girl and her mother later lodged a police report. Police went to her house to pick-up the 2.8kg baby at 8.30pm and record a statement from the student. Investigators, who found the girl unusually tired, began to suspect something amiss when she was not consistent in her statement.
They sent her to Jitra Hospital for a check-up where the student confessed to police that she had given birth to the baby girl. Kubang Pasu Deputy OCPD Deputy Supt Ibrahim Mohd Yusof said that the baby was healthy. “We have remanded the woman for four days and are investigating the case under Section 317 of the Penal Code for abandoning a child,” he said when contacted yesterday.
