Baby dumper gets six months

MAUMERE, East Nusa Tenggara: An unmarried woman was sentenced to six months in jail over the weekend for dumping her newborn child into her neighbor's toilet last year.

Yabelin Oetpah was found guilty of attempting to murder her 2.8-kilogram baby. She did it out of fear that the baby would give away her affair with the child's father, judge A Ratu Tanahboleng said.

The baby had been in the toilet for about four hours when a neighbor heard it cry and fished it out.

The infant died in hospital two days later. Doctors said it suffered an internal infection from inhaling too much waste. (yac/pan)