The parents of a four-year old boy who died after being left in a car for more than eight hours will have their statements recorded by Kedah police.
Padang Terap acting OCPD chief Asst Supt Chang Kut Choy said the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) would call in the parents of Muhammad Aqil Arfan Adnan for questioning.
“We met the parents on Wednesday at the hospital but they were still traumatised. Initial investigations showed negligence caused the boy’s death,” The Star Online quotes Chang as saying, before adding that post-mortem results showed that Muhammad Aqil died of heat stroke.
The case is being investigated under Section 304 of the Penal Code, for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Rohani Abdul Karim said the Welfare Department would cooperate with the PDRM to investigate the case uner Section 3(1) of the Child Act 2001, for ill-treatment, neglect, abandonment or exposre of children, and under Section 33 of the same Act for leaving a child without reasonable supervision.
The boy was believed to have been trapped in his father’s Perodua Viva for more than eight hours. The victim’s father, Adnan Salleh, is a religious teacher at Sekolah Menengah Kuala Nerang, and found Muhammad Aqil at 4pm in the school’s parking lot after finishing work.
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