She loses baby after robbers' bashing
April 12, 2006
A BUSINESSWOMAN miscarried for a second time in two years after she
was attacked in a petrol station toilet last Saturday.
Madam Shirley Koh, 35, was with her husband, their 4-year-old son
and their maid.
The family stopped at a petrol station in Jalan Tebrau, Johor
Bahru, on their way home after shopping at City Square.
Madam Koh told Malaysian newspapers that she and her maid had taken
her son to use the toilet when four or five men in their 20s
suddenly rushed in.
She said in tears: 'They started hitting me. They punched my face,
and kicked me in the stomach.'
She covered her face but the men continued to hit her around her
head and neck.
Madam Koh was seven months pregnant with a boy and, during her
ordeal, she heard someone say in Malay: 'She's pregnant, don't kick
her.'
The attackers took her handbag, containing RM1,000 ($440), as well
as her ATM and credit cards before fleeing.
It was too late when her husband, who had gone to the cashier,
rushed her to the hospital.
They lost the baby the next day.
This is Madam Koh's second miscarriage. Two years ago, her
five-month-old foetus suddenly stopped growing.
Her husband said that they were shaken, but still hoped to have
more children in the future.
