00:00A six-month pregnant woman was sentenced to two months jail by the Bandar Barubangi Sessions
00:06Court on Monday for soliciting clients for prostitution via telegram under the pseudonym
00:12Miza Ozawa.
00:14Twenty-seven-year-old Siti Amiza Baharuddin had pleaded guilty to committing the offence
00:19last week.
00:21Judge Shahrul Rizal Majid ordered the accused to serve the jail sentence from the date of
00:27her arrest, which was June 6.
00:30In her appeal, Siti Amiza asked to be fined instead of being incarcerated given her condition
00:36and that she regretted her past actions.
00:39She also promised not to repeat the offence and wanted to start a new life with her child
00:44by opening a restaurant in KL.
00:47However, Deputy Public Prosecutor Noorul Afiqa Abdul Ghaffar asked for a deterrent sentence
00:53due to public interest and nature of the offence.
00:57Before handing down the sentence, Judge Shahrul Rizal advised the accused to stay with her
01:01family in her hometown in Penang if she really wanted to look after the baby.
01:07On June 19, Siti Amiza was sentenced to one month in prison and fined 12,500 ringgit by
01:14the same court after pleading guilty to two charges of possessing obscene materials and
01:20unregistered medicine.
01:22The court ordered both sentences run consecutively from the date she was arrested on June 6.
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