The opposition Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP) has backed police efforts to investigate and convict women suspected of infanticide, after the the corpses of two premature babies and one recently born infant were found in the capital.
“I call on the government to give equal importance to social issues as it does to political issues. Crime cannot be prevented by the simple existence of a law against it,” DRP MP Rozaina Adam said at a press conference yesterday.
“We see the government working at top gear to solve some problems, but nothing is done to solve these issues. We don’t even see government officials advocating against these crimes,” Haveeru reported Rozaina as saying.
Three women have been arrested in connection with the discarded infants.