COMMENT | The Malaysian mother who dumped her newborn baby in a cereal box in the United Kingdom takes the cake of highlighting an issue that has been so prevalent in Malaysia.

The mother, a 22-year-old student studying at Coventry University, has now been charged with murder.

According to reports, she had kept her pregnancy hidden, and once she had given birth, she stuffed the baby in a cereal box, a plastic bag, and then a luggage bag. The baby was found dead two days later.

If you are Malaysian, then you are probably familiar with cases like this because baby dumping has been a big problem in our country for decades now. We constantly read in the news about babies found everywhere, from rubbish dumpsters to toilets and bushes.