Babysitter fined RM8,000 for feeding baby milk mixed with flu medicine

 

Hew Foong Chun was also ordered to be placed on a good behaviour bond for two years with a surety of RM1,000 and to perform community service for 90 hours within six months from today. (Pexels pic)

KUALA LUMPUR: 

A babysitter was fined RM8,000, in default nine months in jail, by the sessions court here today for abusing an 18-day-old boy by feeding him milk mixed with flu medicine.

Judge Azrol Abdullah handed down the sentence on Hew Foong Chun, 66, who pleaded guilty to the charge.

She was also ordered to be placed on a good behaviour bond for two years with a surety of RM1,000 and to perform community service for 90 hours within six months from today.

Hew was charged with committing the act at a residence in Bukit Jalil here on Sept 15 at 2.21am.

The charge, framed under Section 31(1)(a) of the Child Act 2001 for child abuse, provides a maximum fine of RM50,000 or imprisonment for up to 20 years or both upon conviction.

According to the facts of the case, the woman was paid RM4,500 to care for the baby for 20 days.

The boy’s father became suspicious when his son slept throughout the day. After checking the CCTV footage in the house, he saw the babysitter putting flu medicine in his son’s feeding bottle despite the baby being healthy.

Hew, who was unrepresented, said she is a single mother with asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, as well as hearing and vision problems.

I also have no home or job,

 she said.

Deputy public prosecutor Ikhwan Nasir appeared for the prosecution. - FMT