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Day in court: Police officers escorting Santhiea to the George Town High Court in Penang. LIM BENG TATT/The Star
GEORGE TOWN: A teenager, who is facing a charge of murdering her newborn girl, will continue spending the next few days in jail pending a High Court decision on whether she should be granted bail.
Judge Datuk Amirudin Abd Rahman said a decision would be made this Friday to determine whether M. Santhiea, 18, could be released on bail pending the trial.
“I will need a few days to deliberate. Until the decision is made, she is to be further detained, ” he said at the High Court here yesterday.