POOR PREGNANT MUM JAILED A DAY AND FINED RM1000
JOHOR BARU: A pregnant woman was sentenced to one day in jail and fined RM1,000 after she told a Magistrates court she stole baby clothes worth over RM150 because she was too poor to pay for it.
Housewife Chai Suk Yee, 26, from Taman Daya, was charged with committing the offence at Level 2 of Jusco Tebrau City at around 3.30pm on April 23.
She was accused of stealing a list of 10 items of baby clothes and accessories worth RM158.70.
Chai, who pleaded guilty, told Magistrate Hafizah Johor Ariff Johor that she took the clothes for her unborn child because she could not afford to buy the clothes.
She also said that she was unemployed and her husband did not have a stable job.
Hafizah then sentenced her to one day jail and an RM1,000 fine or one month jail if the fine was not paid. Chai paid the fine.
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There has to be more to this than meets the eye. First, how can 10 baby items and accessories be worth only Rm158.70? A cute dress would cost about RM40 in a normal supermarket. Okay, I'm kidding. There are items or baby clothes that cost around RM10 per piece, but if I'm shoplifting, I might as well take expensive ones right?
Next, I get all my baby stuff from friends, sister in law and colleagues: hand-me-downs save you a lot. Seriously. Why buy? or steal? Just tell people you're pregnant. It's like a green light for people to dump used stuff on you.
Up next, let me get this straight: she is unemployed, the husband doesn't have a steady job and so she goes shoplifting... but she is able to pay the RM1000 fine?
And one last thing, the lady shoplifted less than RM200 worth of items and she is jailed and fined RM1000. For a person who distributes lewd photos, they will only be charged in court and fined a measly RM100. Now that is really the most mind-boggling part of this whole affair. Someone in the law-making department should take a look at this. But then again, it would take forever to get anyone to do anything since no one has died from anything related to this.
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