Rethink effects of criminalising child abandonment, say assemblymen

SHAH ALAM: SEVERAL Selangor assemblymen are calling for a moratorium on Section 317 of the Penal Code, which criminalises the abandonment of children.

This was with regard to baby dumping, specifically the case of an abandoned baby boy at the doorstep of a laundromat in USJ 8 on March 5.