KUANTAN: A month-old baby girl was found near an oil palm tree along the Sungai Lekok road, Lata Meraung near Jerantut on Monday night.
Jerantut police chief Superintendent Azid Ismail said the baby was believed to have been left by her mother following since there was a note that read (take care of this child, her father died, I am Nuer Aini), along with RM15 cash and a picture of a man with the baby.
He said the baby, wrapped in a cloth with the items, was found by a 28-year-old plantation worker at around 8pm, when he heard a baby crying while passing by the road.
“The man then took the baby home before lodging a police report at the Jerantut police station at about 4pm yesterday,” he said when contacted by Bernama here today.
Azid said initial checks by a doctor revealed that the baby was less than a month old and had scratch marks in the chest, probably caused by her own finger nails.
“The baby is now warded at the Jerantut Hospital for further checks and police have informed the district Welfare Department,” he said.
Azid urged members of the public with information or knew the man in the picture to contact the police.