Post-mortem shows student’s newborn died from multiple stab wounds

 Johor police chief Ab Rahaman Arsad says the twin of the murdered baby was later born in hospital.

Johor police chief Ab Rahaman Arsad said police had seized a 24cm knife and bloodstained clothing. (Bernama pic)

PETALING JAYA:

Police have confirmed that a newborn baby girl found in a toilet bowl at a terrace house used as a hostel for college students in Kluang yesterday died from multiple stab wounds to the chest.

Johor police chief Ab Rahaman Arsad said a forensic pathologist from Enche Besar Hajjah Khalsom Hospital in Kluang confirmed this after a post-mortem examination, Bernama reported.

He said police had seized a 24cm knife and bloodstained clothing.

Rahaman said two college students had engaged in an illicit affair for several months, resulting in the birth of the baby and a surviving twin.

“Based on investigations, the male suspect admitted to giving RM450 to his girlfriend to terminate the pregnancy,” he said in a statement.

It was earlier reported that police had arrested a 19-year-old college student and her boyfriend of the same age after a newborn baby girl was found with multiple stab wounds at a rented house in Taman Setia Mutiara, Kluang, yesterday.

The baby girl was discovered by a lecturer in the toilet bowl of the rented house.

The student later gave birth to a second baby girl, the other twin, after doctors discovered another baby was still in her womb.

The male student has been remanded for a week from today until Aug 5. His girlfriend has been warded and is receiving treatment at the hospital. - FMT