Magistrate Amal Razin Alias handed down the sentence to Siti Nabila, 22, after she pleaded guilty to committing the offence.

He also ordered the accused to serve four months in prison if she failed to pay the fine. However, the accused paid the fine.

According to the charge, Siti Nabila, as the mother of the one-day-old baby, was accused of abandoning the child with the intention of disposing him behind an unnumbered house in Kampung Sungai Bedal at 6pm on Sept 7.

She was charged under Section 317 of the Penal Code for concealing the birth with the intent to abandon, which provides for imprisonment of up to seven years or a fine, or both, if convicted.

The prosecution was handled by deputy public prosecutor Siti Aisya Nai’lah Harizan, while the accused was unrepresented.