Siti Bainun withdraws application to delay jail sentence

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The Kuala Lumpur High Court on Thursday (Nov 28) dismissed an application by Rumah Bonda founder Siti Bainun Ahd Razali to postpone the execution of her 12-year prison sentence for neglecting and abusing a girl with Down syndrome, known as Bella, three years ago.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/ba46saju  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The Kuala Lumpur High Court on Thursday dismissed an application by Rumah Bonda founder Siti

00:07Bainun Ardrazali to postpone the execution of her 12-year prison sentence.

00:12The court made the decision after Siti Bainun's lawyer informed the court that the defense

00:17intended to withdraw the application on the sentence over her conviction of neglecting

00:22and abusing Bella, a girl with Down syndrome, three years ago.

00:26The lawyer said with the withdrawal of the application, they will focus on the appeal

00:31at the Court of Appeal.

00:33The date for the appeal to set aside the conviction and sentence at the Court of Appeal has not

00:38yet been set.

00:40In May last year, the High Court upheld the Sessions Court's conviction against Siti

00:45Bainun.

00:46Siti Bainun was charged with causing the victim to suffer physical and emotional injuries

00:52in a condominium unit in Wangsa Maju between February and June in 2021.

00:59The charges framed under the CHILD Act carries a maximum penalty of 20 years' imprisonment

01:05or a 50,000 ringgit fine or both.

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