The 51-year-old had just completed his prayers when he suddenly
heard loud cries of a baby coming from outside his house around 5.30am. The man was astonished to find a baby girl abandoned on a chair in
front of his house. The man immediately wrapped the baby girl in a piece
of cloth and alerted the police.
Sarawak Criminal Investigation Department (CID) police chief Senior
Assistant Commissioner Dev Kumar said a team was deployed to the village
to investigate the case while the baby was rushed to the Serian
Hospital for treatment.
Dev said the CID team led by Insp Mohd Fais Zubir found traces of
blood and recovered a pair of scissors not far away from the house of
the farmer.
"We believe the scissor was used the cut the umbilical cord of the
baby," he said, adding that the blood trail led the CID team to the
arrest of a 26-year-old woman, believed to be the mother of the baby,
within the same housing
estate.
"The woman appeared weak when police conducted checks inside her
house. Our men also found traces of blood in one of the rooms," said
Dev.
The woman was sent to the Sarawak General Hospital in Kuching for
treatment where she will be subsequently arrested under Section
317 of the Penal Code for abandonment of a child under 12 years of age
by a parent.
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