Jail for baby sellers

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A prosecutor says a Malaysian court has sentenced a doctor and his assistant to one year in jail for selling a newborn boy.

Prosecutor Dzul Iswari Mohamad Jaafar says a court in southern Johor state found Robert Luk and his assistant Suleiman Salim guilty yesterday of selling the baby to a couple for 10,000 ringgit ($4224) in 2005.

The two men were accused of altering the birth certificate of the boy, born to a poor woman who wanted to give him up for adoption.