SOLUTION : FAMILY WHAT SHOULD THEY DO

Family especially parents have to play the main rule in decreasing the baby dumping problem. It is because they are the most close to their child. They have to pay more attention to their teenagers child because, in this ages they will face many things. The most important thing is give them a good religious education, that’s the key for a good life.

Some people ashamed to discuss on sex education and do not agree with creating sex education in school. For them it is unsuitable matter discussed in learning. But nowadays it is a very important thing, the students are not taught how to do sex but they will disclose on the reproductive system and the biology of human being. Not only in school, parents also have to tell their children about sex education. This is parent’s responsibility to monitor their child’s moving and activities, so that they can ensure what the good and not. But they have to remember not to shackle their children. By this method they will permanently open to share on daily activities and their social intercourse.

Love and parent’s concern very important, children feels appreciated and are not going to engage with social problems.  It just like a chain, social problem, free association and followed by baby dumping. These problem need to be overcome immediate. Parents has to spend time with childrens and share their problem, parent needs to give guidance not throw them away from family. This case could avoid become worse.

SOLUTION

Everybody have to show their concern about this problem. Parents, communities, government must work together and try to solve it from the root. It is because, the person who involve or be the one who dumped the baby need to be assisted. Sometimes it’s not their attention to do that, but they don’t know what to do with the baby and they don’t know how to face the communities.

So, as society that mindful we have to prevent and help them from become bad to worse. Family and society should consider the symptom of baby dumping as a common problems and not just a load to doer only. Stop on blaming the doer, but aware that what had happened cause by everyone, it’s everyone mistake. Try to help recorrect the mistake that have been done from the family and society, so that the same mistake will never happen.

responsible party :

• government 
• family
• NGO
• society 

MCA: Baby dumping should not be criminalised

By Melissa Chi

August 13, 2010

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 13 — MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek said today that criminalising the act of dumping babies would backfire and worsen the current situation.
He told reporters that meting out the death penalty on those who abandon babies would be too heavy a punishment.
“MCA does not agree in the baby dumping issue with (categorising it under) a death penalty crime,” he said.
He said such a heavy sentence would backfire.
“We think that such cases will be more rampant, done in a harder-to-trace manner considering the dire consequences,” Dr Chua (picture) said.
“Now, at least (the mothers) abandon live babies, but with the criminalisation they might even bury babies alive,” he pointed out.
Despite severe penalties proposed for dumping babies, 60 abandoned baby cases have been reported while the Cabinet has agreed to a proposal by Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil that those who abandon babies resulting in death should be investigated under section 302 of the Penal Code for murder.
Dr Chua said the only solutions are through education and a change of mentality in society, and by creating a support system.
“If we do not reach out and only know how to punish people, then they will behave like criminals,” he said, adding that their action would be a “self-fulfilling prophecy”.
He said the MCA would launch a sex education campaign next month, which would be spearheaded by Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen.
He quickly added that the campaign would be called “Awareness of Sexual Reproduction” instead of “Sex Education”.
“To penalise mothers of unwanted babies is unfair,” he said, pointing out that the father also has an equal responsibility towards the baby.
“Where are the men? Should hold men accountable as well,” he said.
Dr Chua agreed that baby hatches might be one solution.
OrphanCare, a non-governmental organisation based in Petaling Jaya, will be the first organisation in the country to launch a “baby hatch” centre after getting the green light from the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry and the Welfare Department.
The NGO will launch the centre next month, joining several countries in the world which had adopted it.
The centre will accept babies and children abandoned by their single mothers or parents. They will be kept for a maximum of three months before a suitable family is found to adopt them.
“If society does not reach out to them, the only way is to abandon the babies,” Dr Chua said.

Aug 14, 2010 （ THE STRAITS TIME)

Baby dumping is murder

KL reclassifies fatal cases to tackle problem of baby dumping but NGOs oppose move

By Carolyn Hong, Malaysia Bureau Chief

KUALA LUMPUR - BABY dumping that causes the child's death will now be classified as murder, an offence which carries the death penalty in Malaysia.
The Malaysian Cabinet made the decision after the media highlighted a spate of newborns being thrown away, in some cases publishing photos of ants crawling over a dead baby and decomposed bodies.
The latest case was a dead baby girl found floating in a sewage tank behind a girls' college hostel in remote Kelantan two days ago. The decomposed body was found by a group of boys playing nearby.
Two more abandoned baby cases were reported that day in Malacca and Kuala Lumpur.
Women, Family and Community Development Minister Shahrizat Abdul Jalil said in a statement on Wednesday that the Cabinet has directed the Home Ministry to classify baby dumping cases as murder or attempted murder if the child dies.
'The government has no choice as such acts were tantamount to baby killing,' she said. Official statistics show that there were 407 cases of abandoned babies from 2005 to last year, and 60 cases so far this year. Of the babies dumped this year, 25 were boys and 21 girls. Fourteen could not be identified due to decomposition, including one mauled by dogs.

buby dumping statistic

Nineteen baby dumping cases were recorded by police last month, bringing the total reported cases since 2005 to 517.
According to police figures, from total cases, only 230 babies were found alive.

The relevant sections of the Penal Code read:

Section 309A. Infanticide
When any woman, by any wilful act or omission, causes the death of her newly-born child, but at the time of the act or omission had not fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to such child, and by reason thereof the balance of her mind was then disturbed, she shall, notwithstanding that the circumstances were such that, but for this section, the offence would

some cases of baby dumping.

Teluk Intan; Nurazizah Ramlam, 24, slashed her baby's body, cut the umbilical cord using a blade, wrapped the body in towel and hid it in a cupboard. she was charged under Section 309a of the Penal Code and sentenced to seven years in prison.

Kedah; A woman who admitted disposing of her newborn son in a washing machine was jailed two years by Magistrate's Court for causing his death. She had given a week earlier although she denied it. Police then took her back to her house where they found a dead baby boy wrapped in a plastic sheet and batik cloth in the washing machine.

Setapak; A 14-years-old girl was believed to have flushed her foetus down the toilet bowl. The foetus was found with its legs sticking out of the toilet of a flat belonging to a 38-year-old receptionist. She had early invited the girl over to her house to keep her company.