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Couple fined for abandoning girl while job-hunting in Singapore
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Couple fined for abandoning girl while job-hunting in Singapore
Couple pleaded guilty to locking up their 2-year-old daughter for 17 hours in a room while they went job-hunting in Singapore. -The Star/ANN
Sat, Apr 24, 2010
The Star/Asia News Network
By Syed Umar Ariff
JOHOR BARU - A couple, facing financial woes, found out the hard way that it could not be used as an excuse to neglect their child.
They were yesterday fined RM10,000 (S$4.293) or two years' jail, after they pleaded guilty to locking up their 2-year-old daughter for 17 hours in a room while they went job-hunting in Singapore.
Akun Usop, 37, and wife Mariana Romut, 23, from Sarawak, pleaded guilty yesterday to locking up their daughter, Nur Aisyah, alone in a room at the Daiman Apartment in Jalan Jim Quee here last week.
Nur Aisyah was left with nothing but a plate of rice to feed on as the couple left the unit about 5.30am on April 17.
Neighbours were alerted to the child's continuous cries and called the police about 10.30pm.
They forced open the door and saw the girl alone in a room.
The couple, who came back from Singapore a few hours later, were arrested, while Nur Aisyah was placed in the temporary care of the Welfare Department.
Yesterday at the magistrate's court, Akun and Mariana pleaded for leniency after they pleaded guilty to abandoning their child alone at home under Section 33(a) of the Child Act 2001.
Both husband and wife, who were unrepresented, told the magistrate that they still had to take care of their daughter and settle their financial woes.
Magistrate Hafizah Johor Ariff Johor, however, imposed the maximum fine of RM5,000 against each of them or two-years' jail in default.
At press time, both had yet to pay the fine.
Deputy public prosecutor Nor Iffa Zarilla Abdul Rahman prosecuted.
It was later learnt that the couple had been staying at the apartment for the past two years.
They had been odd-job workers in Singapore but were recently laid off.
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Couple fined for abandoning girl while job-hunting in Singapore
Couple pleaded guilty to locking up their 2-year-old daughter for 17 hours in a room while they went job-hunting in Singapore. -The Star/ANN
Sat, Apr 24, 2010
The Star/Asia News Network
By Syed Umar Ariff
JOHOR BARU - A couple, facing financial woes, found out the hard way that it could not be used as an excuse to neglect their child.
They were yesterday fined RM10,000 (S$4.293) or two years' jail, after they pleaded guilty to locking up their 2-year-old daughter for 17 hours in a room while they went job-hunting in Singapore.
Akun Usop, 37, and wife Mariana Romut, 23, from Sarawak, pleaded guilty yesterday to locking up their daughter, Nur Aisyah, alone in a room at the Daiman Apartment in Jalan Jim Quee here last week.
Nur Aisyah was left with nothing but a plate of rice to feed on as the couple left the unit about 5.30am on April 17.
Neighbours were alerted to the child's continuous cries and called the police about 10.30pm.
They forced open the door and saw the girl alone in a room.
The couple, who came back from Singapore a few hours later, were arrested, while Nur Aisyah was placed in the temporary care of the Welfare Department.
Yesterday at the magistrate's court, Akun and Mariana pleaded for leniency after they pleaded guilty to abandoning their child alone at home under Section 33(a) of the Child Act 2001.
Both husband and wife, who were unrepresented, told the magistrate that they still had to take care of their daughter and settle their financial woes.
Magistrate Hafizah Johor Ariff Johor, however, imposed the maximum fine of RM5,000 against each of them or two-years' jail in default.
At press time, both had yet to pay the fine.
Deputy public prosecutor Nor Iffa Zarilla Abdul Rahman prosecuted.
It was later learnt that the couple had been staying at the apartment for the past two years.
They had been odd-job workers in Singapore but were recently laid off.
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