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</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Jobless mother charged
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>She is accused of hiding baby's birth by getting rid of the body secretly </TR><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Mavis Toh
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A pair of burning joss sticks on the floor below the electrical riser where the baby's body was found in a recycling bag on Friday. -- ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->A 23-year-old woman was charged yesterday with disposing of her dead baby.
The latter was found on Friday outside a Jurong West flat in an electrical riser.
Nurasyikin Mohamed Ismail is accused of concealing the birth of her child by secretly disposing of the body in the riser on or before Friday.
Dressed in a black T-shirt and dark slacks, Nurasyikin, who is about 1.55m tall and has short-cropped hair, was calm as her charge was read.
She is unemployed.
On Friday morning, a technician checking utility meter readings outside a 12th-floor flat in Block 678D, Jurong West Street 64, detected a foul smell when he prised open the door of a riser sealed shut by masking tape.
Inside the riser was a green recycling bag.
He felt suspicious and contacted the police at 2.45pm.
This led to the discovery of the dead baby and the arrest of Nurasyikin.
Police said the age and gender of the baby had not been determined.
In court yesterday, Nurasyikin was seen searching the faces in the crowd but no members of her family seemed to be present.
She will be remanded at the Institute of Mental Health for observation and will appear in court again on March 20.
If found guilty of disposing of a child who was stillborn or died during or after birth, she could be jailed for up to two years and fined. [email protected]
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Jobless mother charged
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>She is accused of hiding baby's birth by getting rid of the body secretly </TR><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Mavis Toh
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A pair of burning joss sticks on the floor below the electrical riser where the baby's body was found in a recycling bag on Friday. -- ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->A 23-year-old woman was charged yesterday with disposing of her dead baby.
The latter was found on Friday outside a Jurong West flat in an electrical riser.
Nurasyikin Mohamed Ismail is accused of concealing the birth of her child by secretly disposing of the body in the riser on or before Friday.
Dressed in a black T-shirt and dark slacks, Nurasyikin, who is about 1.55m tall and has short-cropped hair, was calm as her charge was read.
She is unemployed.
On Friday morning, a technician checking utility meter readings outside a 12th-floor flat in Block 678D, Jurong West Street 64, detected a foul smell when he prised open the door of a riser sealed shut by masking tape.
Inside the riser was a green recycling bag.
He felt suspicious and contacted the police at 2.45pm.
This led to the discovery of the dead baby and the arrest of Nurasyikin.
Police said the age and gender of the baby had not been determined.
In court yesterday, Nurasyikin was seen searching the faces in the crowd but no members of her family seemed to be present.
She will be remanded at the Institute of Mental Health for observation and will appear in court again on March 20.
If found guilty of disposing of a child who was stillborn or died during or after birth, she could be jailed for up to two years and fined. [email protected]
