Girl and stepmum held over bid to kill first wife

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?sec=nation&file=%2F2009%2F11%2F22%2Fnation%2F5162646

Summary:
A 25-year-old stepmother said to be jealous of the husband’s first wife. A girl,15 year-old, the daughter of the first wife, who close with the younger wife tried to kill her mother, who is a staff member of the state Land and Survey Department.

According to Papar police chief Deputy Supt Nek Zaidi Zakaria after reading SMS exchanges between the stepmother and the girl, the 38-year-old mother was asleep in her house when she was awakened by a burning sensation on her face. The mother fended off her attacker and was shocked to discover that it was her own daughter. Family members and neighbours rushed the victim to hospital and she lodged a police report the next day.

Police first picked up the girl and subsequently arrested the stepmother. Supt Nek Zaidi said initial investigations showed that the stepmother had given the girl the formic acid on Nov 9 at a shopping centre and later sent her several SMSes ordering the girl to kill her mother.

Comment:

According to the article, this case falls under Public law which categorized in the criminal law. This girl is attempting to kill her own mother by using sarong laced with formic acid. BUT the one that actually plan the whole process is her stepmother who believed to be jealous of the first wife. Both the stepmother and the daughter were running the whole process. In this case, both of them must be arrested where the stepmother gave orders to the girl to murder the mother, while the girl arrested caused by the action that she made for attempting to murder her own mother.

The sanctions of this case probably will be imprisonment, fine or both and for the girl, she need to categorized into juvenile record because she is below 18 running a criminal prosecution.