This was the headline in The Star newspaper today which caught my attention.
What is wrong with these people? I felt like buying a plane ticket right now and fly to Miri to give them both BIG slaps. I am so sad for the poor little boy. May he rest in peace. At least he is now in a safe place and will not get harmed further by these 2 irresponsible people.
MIRI: A baby boy, less than a month old, starved to death after his parents allegedly forgot to feed him because they were too drunk.
The baby died in the intensive-care unit of Miri Hospital yesterday morning and a police report has been lodged.
Police now want to question the parents, in their early 30s from a longhouse in southern Sarawak, who came to Miri to work and were renting a house at a low-cost housing scheme near the Sarawak-Brunei Highway, some 12km north of the city centre.
Relatives found the baby unconscious in the house and rushed him to the hospital at about 3am on Wednesday.
Miri deputy OCPD Supt Ismail Paduka Idris confirmed that the baby died in the morning.
“We are investigating claims that the parents had indulged in a prolonged drinking spree and had neglected the baby.
“Initial investigations show that the baby might have been so severely neglected that he suffered fatal consequences.
“We want to find out whether this was due to carelessness,” Supt Ismail said.
The couple also have a three-year-old daughter.
Since the baby is less than a month old, I am sure the mother is still breast feeding. Why is she consuming alcohol in the first place?
Some women out there who wanted to become mothers could not conceive despite trying everything (I knew a couple of them). They were devastated and heart broken. And here we have 2 irresponsible people who were blessed with 2 healthy and beautiful babies and they didn't appreciate them.
The police should just lock them both up in jail for life but make sure the 3 year old little girl is properly cared for by good people.
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