Police to classify abandoned baby cases as murder and attempted murder

BERNAMA

Monday, August 16th, 2010 20:37:00

KUALA LUMPUR: Police are expected to classify abandoned baby cases under Section 302 of the Penal Code (murder), and under Section 307 (attempted murder).

Those responsible for babies who die would be investigated for murder while abandoned babies found alive would be classified and investigated as attempted murder.

Bukit Aman CID Director Datuk Seri Mohd Bakri Zinin said police would investigate according to the classification of the case because such cases are a serious crime.

However, the decision of whether such cases are classified as murder or not would be decided by the Attorney-General, he said.

Mohd Bakri said police were concerned with an increase in the number of abandoned baby cases compared with last year, especially those involving locals.

He said this year alone 65 abandoned baby cases were reported. "Last year 79 such cases were reported but this year, within the first eight months, 65 cases were reported and it is very disappointing," he told reporters at his office here today.

Mohd Bakri said statistics showed that from 2005 to yesterday, 472 babies were abandoned throughout the country, of which, 258 were dead and 214 were still alive.

He said the public must not turn a blind eye to such cases but instead cooperate with the police because individuals who abandoned their babies were normally from that very same area.

"We want the public to provide information to the police when they come across such cases so that police can identify the parents of such babies," he said

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ways for us to curb baby dumping

  I think we should introduce this organisation or make a new organisation that has a similar function as this Bastard Nation organisation.
  Bastard Nation is a North American adult adoptee political advocacy and support organization. It was founded in 1996 by denizens of the Usenet newsgroup alt.adoption Shea Grimm, Damsel Plum, Marley Greiner and Lainie Petersen. The original intent of the organization was to support adult adoptees in gaining access their original birth certificates as a civil right, rather than as a vehicle for facilitating search, which had been the aim of prior open records organizations (See The ALMA Society The Adoptees' Liberty Movement Association - "Celebrating more 38 Years of Adoption Reunion and Reform, 1971 - 2009"]. It is also distinguished from search-and-reconnection focused organizations in that it supports the full spectrum of the adult adoptee experience, including adoptees who do not wish to search^[1] and adoptees whose reconnections were a bad experience^[2].

Besides advocating adult adoptee access to original birth certificates, Bastard Nation also launches campaigns against negative stereotypes of adoption and adoptees.^[3]

North American adoptee birth certificates were originally sealed only to non-family members in the early 20th century^[4] but after WWII most states^[5] sealed adoptee birth certificates permanently to all parties involved: the adoptee, the adoptive parents and the birthparents.

The group has been successful in getting several states in the United States to approve legislation to open sealed records, for example in Oregon by Ballot Measure 58^[6], described in the bookAdoption Politics: Bastard Nation & Ballot Initiative 58 ^[7]by E. Wayne Carp (2004). They have members throughout the United States, Canada and the world^[8].

The name is a reference to the fact that most adopted children were born illegitimate, hence are literally bastards. The term bastard is employed both for shock value, and in an effort to reclaim the term for common usage (as was done by the organization Queer Nation with the word queer).

Images of Baby Hatch

Baby Hatch

An NGO in Malaysia has introduced baby hatch in order to curb baby dumping.The first baby hatch was opened at OrphanCARE premises in Petaling Jaya.For all we know,these unlucky babies were dumped at the toilets,rubbish sites,bins,rivers and many more places.Thus,this baby hatch can be an alternative to the mother to leave her baby anonymously in a safe place to be found and cared of.This program has the support of Ministry of Women,Family and Community Development.The hatch has a small door which opens to an  to an incubator which a mother can place her baby.Once after the door is closed,an alarm bell will ring and alert the NGO staff to the baby presence right after the mother has left.

Effects on Teenage Pregnancy

Effects of teen pregnancies on the children involved. These children are far more likely to grow up in poverty, to have more health problems, to suffer from higher rates of abuse and neglect, to fail in school, to become teen mothers, to commit delinquent acts and adult crimes, and to incur failed adult marriages and other relationships.


The burdens of early childbearing on disadvantaged teens are undeniable. Trying to untangle the factors which contribute to teenage pregnancy from its effects, however, leads to a "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" dilemma. Educational failure, poverty, unemployment and low self-esteem are understood to be negative outcomes of early childbearing. These circumstances also contribute to the likelihood of teen pregnancy.

In general, teen mothers have much lower levels of educational attainment than other women, which severely limit their career options and sharply increase their likelihood of economic dependency. Only 70% of teen mothers complete high school or earn a GED, and far fewer
Risk Factors. Although it is not inevitable, some life circumstances place girls at higher risk of becoming teen mothers. These include poverty, poor school performance, growing up in a single parent household, having a mother who was an adolescent mother, or having a sister who has become pregnant.

Teenage pregnancies have become a public health issue because of their observed negative effects on perinatal outcomes and long-term morbidity. The association of young maternal age and long-term morbidity is usually confounded, however, by the high prevalence of poverty, low level of education, and single marital status among teenage mothers.

Children of teenage mothers have significantly higher odds of placement in certain special education classes and significantly higher occurrence of milder education problems, but when maternal education, marital status, poverty level, and race are controlled, the detrimental effects disappear and even some protective effects are observed.
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Teen Pregnancy

Teen pregnancies are still the norm in much of the developing world. Each child born to a young girl normally is considered a blessing.
Despite the fact that the teen birth rate is slowly falling, there are still an estimated one million teen pregnancies in the United States alone. About 85% of these pregnancies are unplanned, which in any population can increase the risk for problems. The biggest risk for teen mothers is delaying prenatal care or worse, 7.2% received no care at all.

The reason for lack of prenatal care is usually delayed pregnancy testing, denial or even fear of telling others about the pregnancy. Most states have a health department or University clinic where prenatal care is free or low cost and patient confidentiality is very important, meaning no one can tell the teen mother's family.
Teenage mothers are less likely to gain adequate weight during their pregnancy, leading to Low Birth weight which is associated with infant and childhood disorders and a high rate of infant mortality. Low-birth weight babies are more likely to have organs that are not fully developed, which can result in complications such as bleeding in the brain, respiratory distress syndrome, and intestinal problems.
Children born to teenage mothers are less likely to receive proper nutrition, health care, and cognitive and social stimulation. As a result, they may have an underdeveloped intellect and attain lower academic achievement.

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Impact of Teenage Pregnancy

• Very destructive impact accrues over a teenage girl if she becomes pregnant after doing intercourse with a boy. The teenage girl comes under the grip of tremendous dilemma, after realizing some physical changes substantiating her becoming pregnant. She cant muster the courage to apprise her parent of what she is passing through and often leave every thing on fate. As the teens do not know as to what is awaited from their womb, they do their routine works without being much serious of some one getting nurtured in their womb by the nature. Before her lusting acts coming into the notice of her parents, the teenager is found to have put her and her unwanted baby’s life into peril. There remains no any option before her parent except to abort the fetus.
• Harm to girl and her unborn baby can’t be ruled out. So teenage pregnancy not only is immoral but dangerous as well, to the adolescent girl and her baby. It is the duty of responsible mother and father to prevent it from happening with their daughters by taking precautionary steps in advance.
• Teenage pregnancy affects the education of under fourteen girl and causes a great humiliation in her in friend circle. Teenage pregnancy spoils entire career of such teenage girls.
• Parents feel ashamed of their daughter, as her pregnancy makes their negligence public, in the ociety.   
• Teenage pregnancy causes psychological and physical trauma to the girl forcing her often to commit suicide specially in the conservative families of developing countries where it is looked upon with hate.
• Pelvis being not grown up enough to sustain the baby leads to a variety of complications such as excessive discharge, unpleasant smell and infection.
• It causes in the teenage girls (in the developing countries), obstetric fistula, eclampsia, infant mortality and oftentimes maternal death.

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