2. How does the Child Act 2001 apply to domestic childcare accidents?

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## The Child Act 2001 can apply to a domestic childcare incident if police treat the circumstances as possible neglect, abandonment, or exposure that may have caused injury.

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In this Seremban case, police detained a 54-year-old local woman under Section 31(1)(a) of the Child Act 2001 after an 11-month-old baby girl was found face down in a pail of soapy water at a house in Jalan Sri Permata Ladang. The provision was invoked because it covers alleged abuse, neglect, abandonment, or exposure of a child in a manner likely to cause physical or emotional injury, which is the legal frame police used while investigations continued.

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