A 38-year-old Indonesian was sentenced to five years' jail for burying alive his newborn baby in a jungle in Malaysian southern state of Johor, local media reported on Tuesday.
Describing Ramlee Basa-ruddin's crime as "cruel" and "hideous," Malaysian magistrate Nor-syahid Malik handed down the maximum punishment allowed in a magistrate's court for unintentional homicide under Section 304b of the Penal Code, the New Straits Times reported.
Ramlee was also sentenced to an additional year in prison for a separate offense of being in Malaysia without valid documents, the report said, adding that he was also punished with four strokes of the cane for the offense.
Both sentences are to run consecutively from Monday.
According to the local reports, he took the infant on Jan. 8 from his 20-year-old girlfriend, a Malaysian girl, who given the birth on the same date.
Source: Xinhua
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