Magistrate Teoh Shu Yee handed down the sentence on a factory production operator Muhammad Faiz Zakariyah, 25, who pleaded guilty to the charge.

He was charged with another person still at large with concealing the birth of a seven-month-old foetus by throwing it into a sewage hole of a house at Batu 4¼ Kampung Kandang here at 12.30am last June 7.

According to the facts of the case, Faiz’s girlfriend had delivered the premature baby at her rented house in Bukit Baru here and then handed over the dead baby to him.

Following investigations at the scene, the police recovered pieces of flesh, believed to be from the baby’s limbs.

Teoh, when handing down the sentence, said the issue of abandoned babies is an act of irresponsible parents and hoped that the sentence she meted out would serve as a lesson to society.

She said the incident should not happen as there are NGOs and the Social Welfare Department that could provide assistance and protect the baby and/or arrange for the baby to be adopted.

Faiz was unrepresented, while the prosecution was conducted by deputy public prosecutor Puteri Nor Nadia Mohamed Iqbal.

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