A newborn baby boy was found floating at Pantai Kuala Laut, behind TamanTeluk Villa in Putatan yesterday. Penampang District Police Chief said the body was found by an angler at about 11.20am yesterday.
Police believe the baby was delivered less than 24 hours before the body was found.
The baby body has been taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for a post-mortem, The witness, Nawawi Chiplin, 48, said he was at home when
the angler who found the baby came to tell him that he saw a suspicious
looking object floating at sea.“I went out to look and wasn’t sure if it was a fish or something
else. To my horror, it was a dead baby. I didn’t dare touch it before
the police came,” he said.
Nawawi said the baby’s legs were still red when they found him but the rest of the body had already turned blue. Police were investigating the case under Section 318 of the Penal
Code for concealment of birth by secret disposal of a dead body.
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