Quick thinking mum saves child from babysitter’s abuse

KAJANG: A quick-thinking mother saved her young baby from allegedly becoming a victim of abuse at the hands of her babysitter.

Kajang OCPD Asst Comm Ahmad Dzaffir Yusoff said the mother, a police officer serving in Kajang, had brought her eight-monthold daughter to Hospital Kajang after noticing red marks on her cheeks.

“The medical assistant suspected that the child had been abused and later lodged a police report,” he said.

ACP Ahmad Dzaffir said the mother had earlier dropped off her baby at the babysitter’s house in Taman Bukit Mutiara before heading to her workplace to apply for emergency leave to take her daughter to the clinic.

When she returned, she called the babysitter and heard her daughter crying loudly in the background.

“She then asked about her baby and the sitter said the baby was asleep and well,” he said.

ACP Ahmad Dzaffir said the mother discovered the red marks on her daughter’s cheeks as though she had been slapped.

It is learnt that the babysitter had only cared for the baby for about a month.

Police later arrested the babysitter who has been remanded until Friday.

The case is being investigated for ill-treatment, neglect, abandonment and exposure of children under the Child Act 2001.