A one-year-old toddler died after she was allegedly left in the car by her father for almost five hours, The New Straits Times reports.
Kulai police chief Superintendent Razak Md Said was quoted by the daily as saying that the man’s wife had placed the girl in the back seat of his car so that he could send her to a nearby nursery in Saleng, Kulai at around 9.30am on Tuesday.
“About 10am, the father left the house to go to work in Saleng, without realising that his daughter was in the back seat of the vehicle,” he told the daily.
The father reportedly received a call from the girl’s nanny at 3pm, asking him why he did not drop his daughter off at the nursery.
“He immediately rushed to the car and found the girl in a weak state and believed to have died,” Supt Razak was quoted as saying.
The man then reportedly rushed the girl to the Temenggung Seri Maharaja Tun Ibrahim Hospital where she was pronounced dead, likely due to suffocation.
Supt Razak told the daily that the case is being investigated under Section 31(a) of the Child Act 2001 for neglecting a child resulting in death.
