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Saturday January 1, 2011

Good Samaritan left holding the baby

SEREMBAN: A Good Samaritan panicked when the mother of a baby did not return for her child after going to the washroom at KL Sentral station.

Nursing student Qurratnaini Amni Jamaludin, 20, said she was at KL Sentral at 10.25am yesterday when a woman approached her with a week-old baby boy.

“The woman, who wore a head scarf, pastel green blouse and jeans, asked me to look after her baby as she had to visit the washroom,” she told Bernama.

Qurratnaini, who had arrived at KL Sentral from Seremban at 10am yesterday, became anxious when the woman did not return to claim the baby.

She waited two hours for the woman to reappear.

Subsequently, Qurratnaini contacted her parents, who went to Kuala Lumpur by car to fetch her and the baby.

The 3.5kg baby with dark complexion was handed over to the Tuanku Ja’afar Hospital here.

A police report was also lodged.

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Monday January 3, 2011

Mum has one month to reclaim baby

SEREMBAN: The woman who left her week-old infant with a 20-year-old nursing student at KL Sentral has 30 days to reclaim her baby boy.

If she fails to do so, the court will hand over the infant to a family for adoption.

State Family, Women Affairs and Community Development Committee chairman Datuk Zainab Nasir said the baby, who had since been put under the care of the Welfare Department, was in good health.

“Provisions under the Child Act state that the mother should reclaim her baby within the said period.

If she fails to do so, the court can decide on the next course of action, which is to give him away for adoption,” she said when visiting the baby at the Tuanku Ja’afar Hospital here.



Adorable: Zainab holding the baby boy at the Tuanku Ja’afar Hospital in Seremban. Looking on is Jamaludin.

The baby’s mother, said to have worn a head scarf, pastel green blouse and jeans, had approached Qurratnaini Amni Jamaludin at the station at 10.25am on Friday and asked her to hold the infant as she had to go to the washroom.

However, the woman did not return after two hours, prompting Qurratnaini to contact her parents in Rantau.

Upon their advice, she brought the baby back to Seremban where the family handed him over to the hospital.

A police report was also lodged. Qurratnaini’s 50-year-old father, fire-fighter Jamaludin Latif, said his family had grown fond of the baby and wished to adopt him.

He said that although he had five children, with the youngest being five, there was still room for more.

The family has even named the boy Mohd Aqil Fauzy, which means “admirable vision of success”.

Zainab expressed hope that the baby’s mother would reclaim him soon.