PETALING JAYA: A jobless man and a woman were arrested for allegedly dumping the body of their four-month-old daughter opposite a mosque in Sungai Way here on Sunday.
The mosque’s 32-year-old imam called the police about 8.45pm after he found a plastic bag left next to his car which was parked opposite the mosque.
Petaling Jaya deputy police chief Supt Ku Mashariman Ku Mahmood said yesterday that the suspects left a note in the bag urging the mosque authorities to undertake the burial of the four-month-old baby girl.
The suspects also claimed in the note that they did not have a proper place to live and did not have money to take the child to a hospital.
He said based on clues and scrutiny of a closed-circuit camera footage obtained from the mosque, police traced the suspects, a 25-year-old man and a 26-year-old foreign woman, to a hotel in SS3 here.
Ku Mashariman said the duo had admitted to leaving the body of their baby girl opposite the mosque.
He said the suspects were remanded for four days for investigations for “secretly disposing the dead body of a child” under Section 318 of the Penal Code.
