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Young Woman Sentenced for Abandoning Newborn on Garbage Dump in Kyrgyzstan

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The Jalal-Abad City Court has handed down a verdict to a young woman who left her newborn daughter on a garbage dump in the regional capital. The information was confirmed by the court's press service.

The defendant was found guilty of attempting to murder her newborn child under the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic and was sentenced to two years in prison. Based on Article 82 of the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic, with the application of one year of probation, she was exempted from punishment involving deprivation of liberty.

It is worth noting that the newborn girl was found on November 18, 2023, around 8:40 near the garbage bins in the "Sputnik" microdistrict in Jalal-Abad. It was revealed that the 18-year-old resident of the village of Akman is the mother of the child. She gave birth to the baby in a rented apartment.