The petrol station attendant felt something was amiss when she saw a woman coming out of the toilet, where she had been for some time, clutching a bundle. Suspecting a case of baby dumping, she persuaded the woman to hand over the baby, whom she then took to a police station in Baling, Kedah.

Every few days, a baby is abandoned in Malaysia. Babies have been found in plastic bags, in rubbish dumps, left in grass to be bitten by ants, and dropped in toilet bowls.