Cops nab nursery assistant after death of baby

A NURSERY assistant was arrested after an eight-month-old baby under her care died in a nursery school in Taman Kelemak Utama in Alor Gajah here yesterday.

Alor Gajah district police chief Ashari Abu Samah confirmed the arrest of a 34-year-old woman who has three children of her own, Bernama reported.

He said police received a call from the Alor Gajah Hospital, which reported that an eight-month-old baby boy had been brought into the emergency ward in an unconscious state.

“According to initial investigations, the baby was sent to the nursery by his mother and grandfather at around 7.05am before the victim’s mother received a call from the nursery informing her that the victim’s body had turned blue and his nose was bleeding and the victim was in a state of drooping.”

The victim was immediately taken to the Alor Gajah Hospital where the doctor confirmed that the child had died. An autopsy was later carried out, he said in a statement last night.

Meanwhile, the baby’s father Fikry Amri Abd Halim, 39, said his son Al Fateh Amri had only been sent to the nursery over the past five days.

He said when his wife Sabrina Hakiem Zaini, 39, rushed to the nursery she found their son limp with a bloody mouth and a bluish face.

It has only been five days since he sent his son there and this is what happened, he said when met by reporters at the Alor Gajah Hospital forensic unit last night.

Fikry, an army officer based at the Sungai Besi Perdana Camp in Kuala Lumpur, said what surprised him more was when he found out that the nursery did not have a licence even though it had been operating for four years.

The couple had waited 13 years to get a child that they had dreamed of having and did not expect such a tragedy to happen – the wife had even taken unpaid leave to take care of the child. – September 7, 2024.