JEDDAH — The Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution (BIP) is continuing its investigation into the alleged sexual abuse of a three-year-old Indonesian child. The child's parents had left the country and entrusted the child to compatriot neighbors. They apparently took the child to hospital as she was suffering from high fever and was unconscious. The medical director of the private hospital, Dr. Salah Muftah, said the child was admitted to the hospital suffering from a high temperature, bruises, a bleeding head and inflammation on her private parts. She was treated and is still unconscious but is beginning to respond to treatment, he said. The head of the forensics center in Jeddah, Dr. Talal Ikram, said the child had severe inflammation in her bladder due to negligence. Jeddah police spokesman First Lt. Nawaf Al-Bouq said the hospital notified police as the child had signs of abuse on her body and the people who brought her to the hospital were not her parents. Police went to the hospital, detained the people who had brought the child to the hospital and asked forensics officers for a medical report, which said the child was not sexually abused. Al-Bouq said when the child leaves the hospital she will be referred to the Ministry of Social Affairs.
