SEREMBAN, April 13 — A father and his daughter were charged at the Magistrates’ Court today on charges of murdering a five-year-old girl in March this year
Both nodded when the charge under Section 302 of the Penal Code was read together with Section 34 of the same Code which provides for the death penalty or imprisonment for 30 years and whipping if convicted. At the Sessions Court later, the father of two pleaded not guilty to two charges of intentionally causing grievous bodily harm by throwing hot water on Siti Syarifah until she was scalded at the same location and date and abandoning a 20-month-old girl at the same location between December 1, 2020, and March 23, 2022.