PETALING JAYA: The Internet is divided on Malaysian Teo Jia Xin who killed her baby by hiding her in a cereal box in the United Kingdom, with some showing sympathy while others calling for her deportation.
Many readers of the UK's Daily Mail online portal empathised with Teo and the possibly difficult circumstances that may have led to her horrific actions.
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"Tragic. Fear of shame for the family and herself was too much. If only she sought help, everything could have been different. RIP little one," commented piccadu1234 from London.
"It's impossible for others to be able to judge this woman's actions & understand why she did what she did. Why did she keep the pregnancy secret? Why didn't she seek help? - probably due to fear," wrote NinaP51 from Manchester.
"It's tragic for the baby, but this girl must have been terrified. There are two victims here," added Whins from Scotland.
However many also called for Teo to be punished and deported.
"Please revoke her student visa and deport her to do her sentence, supposedly our prisons are full," commented Unneccsarilycensored from Paradise, UK.
"Our prisons are full! Send her home to do her jail time there," wrote roxy from Eastbourne, UK.
"Send her back rather than keep her in jail here!" added Flocksofpeople from Derby.
According to the Crown Prosecution Service, Teo, 22 arrived in the United Kingdom early this year and knew she was pregnant but did not tell anybody including the father of the child back in Malaysia.
Prosecutor David Mason KC told the court; according to Teo's account she gave the police, her baby definitely survived a least number of minutes and was still moving when she put the girl into the box.
Teo, from Raglan Street, denied murdering the baby but said she has been hearing voices to do so.
The jury at Warwick Crown Court rejected her defence and found her guilty.
She will be sentenced at a later date.
Mason told jurors for a defence of infanticide, those representing Teo would have to establish that her mind was or might have been disturbed or not fully recovered from the effect of giving birth.
However, he said Teo had "deliberately" hid her pregnancy from everyone, lied to the doctors about giving birth and refused a vaginal exam.
