Last Thursday, a young grandmother from Kuala Terrengganu was charged in the magistrates’ court, for a drug trafficking offence that supposedly took place at the public toilet of the Majlis Bandaraya Kuala Terengganu (MBKT) bus station. Harini Che Soh, who is a 43 year old grandmother, from Rantau Panjang, Kelantan, who is a single mother with four children and a grandchild, was under arrest with 83gm of heroin at 6am at the bus station, was charged under Section 39B (1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 which carries the mandatory death sentence if convicted. However, no plea was recorded when the charge was read before magistrate Wan Nor Aklima Wan Salleh. Aklima later set Aug 23, for the case to be heard and no bail was allowed. The same day, police detained Harini and another single mother, believed to be her colleague, aged 30, from Kuala Lumpur, during a raid at the bus station. Police then found 20 vials of heroine weighing 83gm hidden in her bra.
This is definitely not an example that we would want to set for the future generations. Maybe she did this to support her four children and also her grandchild, because by selling drugs, you can actually get a lot of money from it but there are so many other ways that can solve this problem, such as looking for a job, whether it is not a good one, but it can still put food on the table. She as a mother and a grandmother should know that doing this is wrong, what kind of example is she sending to them. She has to actually take responsibility for her own action because this kind of case can actually, if convicted, carries the mandatory death sentence. She has to clear things up so that she can still take care of her children.
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