The Machang Magistrate’s Court today fined an unemployed woman RM2,000 for abandoning a newborn baby boy, still with the umbilical cord attached, behind a house in Kampung Sungai Bedal, Temangan, three weeks ago.

Magistrate Amal Razin Alias handed down the sentence to Siti Nabila, 22, after she pleaded guilty to committing the offence and further ordered the accused to serve four months in prison if she failed to pay the fine.

The accused paid the fine.

According to the charge...