14 witnesses called on first day of Baby Syifa inquest

 

Baby Syifa’s parents, Yuseri Yusoff and Anida Idrus.

SEREMBAN: Fourteen witnesses have been called to testify in the coroner’s court on the first day of the inquest into the death of 15-month-old Nour Rania Asyifaa Yuseri, or Baby Syifa, at a childcare centre in Bandar Sri Sendayan in February.

Proceedings before coroner Surita Budin began with Lance Corporal Khairunnisa Muzlan from the Mambau police station, who took the first report on the toddler’s death.

Other witnesses included Sendayan police beat personnel, Lance Corporal Muhammad Faizul Ab Rahman; Sendayan health clinic medical officer Dr Nur Aishah Abdul Latiff, Tuanku Jaafar Hospital (HTJ) medical officer Dr Muhammad Afiq Mohd Zain; as well as several parents of children who attended the childcare centre.

Also present at the court were the toddler’s parents, Yuseri Yusoff and Anida Idrus.

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Others present were Negeri Sembilan’s prosecution director Badius Zaman Ahmad, lawyers representing the victim’s family, Hafiz Norkhan and Gaithri Thomas, while lawyer Norliana Ali Othman acted as an observer on behalf of the babysitter.

Questioned by deputy public prosecutor Husni Fairos Ramly, the third witness, Nur Aishah, said the victim was brought to the Sendayan health clinic at about 3.45pm by a woman.

The witness told the inquest that she then instructed the clinic’s personnel to take the victim to the treatment room where several procedures were performed including providing breathing support and administering adrenaline jabs and fluid. However, the toddler did not respond.

She said the case was then handed over to Afiq who arrived at the clinic at 4.15pm. However, the HTJ medical officer pronounced the child dead at 4.30pm.

Nur Aishah told the court that she did not know the cause of death, adding that she was only informed by other medical officers that the toddler was caught in a cloth cradle.

The proceedings will continue on Nov 10.

On Feb 23, the media reported that Baby Syifa was found unconscious after her head was entangled in a cloth cradle at a childcare centre.

She was earlier fed milk and then left to sleep in the cloth cradle by a babysitter. - FMT