5 held over girl’s death

> Victim believed to have been abused by adoptive family

PETALING JAYA: Police have detained five people over the death of a barely five-year-old foreign girl who was allegedly abused by her local adopted family in Jalan PJS 8/14 here.

Petaling Jaya district police chief ACP Mohd Zani Che Din said that three men and two women, all locals aged between 23 and 57, were arrested at about 9pm on Saturday.

“The victim, identified as Nur Amira, an Indonesian, who lived in an apartment in Jalan PJS 8/14 here was brought to the Sungai Buloh Hospital on Saturday.

“She was unconscious and weak when she was warded.

“The doctors tried their best to save her, but their attempts failed and the child was pronounced dead at 4.30pm, barely 30 minutes after she was admitted,” he said in a statement yesterday.

Doctors who attended to her found multiple wounds and bruises on her body, which pointed at possible abuse as the probable cause of death.

He added hours before the girl’s death, a police report was lodged by a neighbour.

Mohd Zani said the police report stated that the neighbour heard a girl crying and a woman yelling at the child to remain silent when he was at his home about 2pm on Saturday.

“The complainant was also told by other residents in the apartment that they had seen the girl limping while walking and some had even noticed bruises and wounds on her body, which prompted the neighbour to lodge a police report.”

The neighbour also claimed that he often heard the girl crying in pain when she was allegedly abused by the adoptive family.

The doctor on duty as well as the babysitter, who brought the victim to the hospital, lodged police reports.

Mohd Zani said police are also investigating the relation between the victim and her adoptive family.

All five suspects, who are the adopted family members of Nur, have been remanded for four days starting yesterday.