PETALING JAYA:
Five teenage girls have been charged in the children’s court in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, with verbally abusing Form 1 student Zara Qairina Mahathir, who died last month.
The five, whose identities are being withheld as they are below 18, were charged with using abusive words against Zara prior to her death, Bernama reported.
They were charged under Section 507C(1) of the Penal Code which deals with harassment.
Zara was found unconscious at 4am on July 16 after allegedly falling from the third floor of her school’s hostel in Papar, Sabah. She died at Queen Elizabeth I Hospital in Kota Kinabalu the following day.
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