Bodies of three babies found in just a week

The bodies of three infants have been found over the course of just a week, in three separate cases across the country. 

The latest incident saw the body of a baby boy, believed to be a few weeks old, discovered in Taman Wilayah, Sentul, on Monday morning. 

“The body was decomposed and initial forensic investigations suggested it could be two weeks old,” Sentul police chief ACP R Munusamy told The Malay Mail Online‘s G Prakash. 

Also on Monday, the body of a baby boy with his umbilical cord still attached was found in Tanjung Merit, Mersing Johor. 

Mersing police said the body was found by an orang asli scavenging through a rubbish site at a landfill, and was wrapped with a newspaper in a plastic bag. 

Six days earlier, the body of a newborn girl was found by the residents of an apartment building in Rawang. 

Gombak police chief ACP Ali Ahmad said the body was stuffed inside a bag and abandoned at the mailbox area of the apartment building. 

To date, no arrests have been made in connection with the three cases.