© Provided by Malay Mail Online According to the police, the father said he found the child in a weak state and rushed her to Kulai Hospital where medical officers pronounced her dead. — Malay Mail pic © Provided by Malay Mail Online 

PETALING JAYA, Sept 15 — Police have recorded the statement of the father of the one-year-old girl who died after she was left in a car in Kulai on Tuesday.

The man, in his 40s, left his daughter Loh Yu Bin, on the back seat of his Mercedez Benz as the sun baked it for five hours causing her to succumb to the heat.

Johor CID chief Datuk Kamarul Zaman Mamat said police had recorded the father’s statement yesterday and he had been released on police bail.

“A post-mortem was also conducted yesterday and we are now waiting for the chemist report,” he said yesterday.

The father had forgotten to drop off his only daughter at the babysitter’s house not far from their home in Bandar Putra and instead drove straight to work with her.

He was apparently in a rush and had forgotten the child was in the vehicle and went about his duties from the time he arrived at his office at 10am. He only rushed to the car when the babysitter called at 3pm and asked why his daughter was not at her house.

Kamarul had earlier said the child was left in the car in sweltering heat of about 37-38 degrees Celsius.

He said the father found the child in a weak state and rushed her to Kulai Hospital where medical officers pronounced her dead.

“We believe he was in a rush to get to work and had forgotten about the child in the car,” he said.

“However, we are calling for witnesses who may have seen him leaving the car to cross check his story as we want to investigate if it was intentional.”

The case is classified as child neglect under Section 31(a) of the Child Act 2001.
by noreply@blogger.com (Rakyat Sembang) via BERITA RAKYAT