Malaysian parents who abandon their newborns and leave them to die could face the gallows, as authorities step up their response to a series of gruesome cases of abandoned babies.
The government has reportedly agreed that baby dumping will now be probed under the offence of attempted murder or murder, which is punishable by a mandatory death sentence on conviction.
Several recent cases are being investigated under more lenient criminal codes, such as abandonment, that carry up to 10 years imprisonment. More...
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