A Samoan woman has been returned home from Malaysia and will face charges after she dumped her dead newborn in a restroom bin in Kuala Lumpur.
Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi told Talamua Online that negotiations between the Samoa and Malaysia governments came to the conclusion that the woman be returned to face charges in Samoa.
“She can be charged in Malaysia, but this is where the government comes in; to have its own people face charges in their own country,” said Tuilaepa.
The unnamed woman had traveled to Malaysia to attend a health training course and is alleged to have dumped the baby the day after she arrived in the capital Kuala Lumpur.
She was accompanied by Samoa’s Consul General Auseugaefa Poloma Komiti of Sydney, Australia.
