KOTA KINABALU: A woman has been jailed three years for using her deceased daughter’s identification information to help a foreigner get a MyKad 10 years ago.
Sitti Jalminah Biddarin, 56, from Kg Bubul Laut Semporna, was charged with providing false information at the district National Registration Department (NRD) to help a girl, now 22 years old, register for a Mykad.
She pleaded guilty to the charge read before Semporna Magistrate Don Stiwin Malanjum on Thursday (May 16).
According to the charge sheet, Sitti's husband had lodged a report on May 5, 2021, as he suspected that Sitti had given false documents to help someone apply for a Malaysian identification card using their deceased daughter's details.
Sitti had given information to the NRD, claiming to be the birth mother to one Norwatim Budlain, for the latter to get her identification document at about 11.23am on Dec 15, 2014.
It was later found that Norwatim, who was Sitti's daughter, had died when she was six months old and her death was never reported.
The woman posing as Norwatim is actually another person named Musfirah Kahar.
In pleading for leniency, Sitti said it was her first offence and she had done so out of pity for Musfirah.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Nurul Fariza Abdullah urged for a stern penalty to be imposed as a deterrent and lesson to others.
She said this was a matter of national security that should not be taken lightly.
The court then sentenced Sitti to three years' imprisonment from her date of arrest on May 15.
