SANDAKAN: The 35-year-old woman who was attacked along with her children by her jealous husband at their squatter home near Ladang NPC in Beluran on Monday was still in a critical condition.
Rossi Baco and her two-year-old daughter, Lenny, are receiving treatment at the Duchess of Kent Hospital here.
Her two other children, Juliana, seven, and Juliady, four, who suffered facial and head injuries, are in the Beluran Hospital.
The couple’s two-week-old son died in the attack.
Beluran district police chief DSP Sivanathan Velautham said that initial investigations showed that the 34-year-old suspect attacked his family out of jealousy.
The suspect found out that his wife was having an affair with another man before he stabbed her head with a pair of scissors and beat his children with an iron bar that is used to lance oil palm fruit brunches.
Sivanathan said that the case was still under investigation under Section 302 of the Penal Code, which carries the mandatory death penalty upon conviction.