Malaysia’s ‘Baby-Dumping’ Epidemic

[FarCenter]

It was still daylight on Sept. 16, when the new 20-year-old mother tossed her baby from the third floor of the Desa Mentari apartments in Petaling Jaya, a sprawling suburb of Kuala Lumpur.

According to gruesome accounts printed in the press, the baby was still alive when it hit the ground and shattered its skull. The neighbors, most of whom were home due to the Malaysia Day national holiday, found it covered in blood, its umbilical cord still attached.

It was a horrific act, and one that -- nearly two weeks later -- continues to receive coverage in the Malaysian news media. Yet it’s not just this single grizzly act of infanticide that scandalizes Malaysia, but rather the uncomfortable fact that it’s just the latest instance in a so-called “baby dumping” scourge that’s plagued the country for the better part of a decade. According to government statistics, between 2005 and January 2011, 517 Malaysian babies were “dumped” -- a term that encompasses acts as disparate as tossing infants from windows and simply abandoning them in fields.

Of those 517 children, 287 were found dead. In 2012, there have been 31 cases, including at least one more instance of a child being tossed from a window. And while the mother in the most recent case is being held on a murder charge, there have been other instances in which women caught baby dumping are held for psychological evaluations and then let go (assuming the infant lives).

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-28/malaysia-s-baby-dumping-epidemic.html

[Warpy]

1. Well, let's see this in perspective

1. pass laws to make abortion nearly impossible to get
2. don't offer effective birth control.
3. make women powerless socially and economically.
4. bewail a rise in infanticide.

Anybody who doesn't see a pattern here is blind.