Girls from CCpur living miserable lives in a Children Home in TN
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, April 30 2011:
Around 20 girls from Churachandpur district are reportedly living miserable lives in a Children Home in Tamil Nadu, K Haoneilam, mother of two girls who are among the girls told reporters today.
The girls were taken away to the Children Home about seven years ago on pretext of providing them good care and education.
They are living in a children home called Michael Job Centre situated at Coimbatore.
Members of Coalition on Child Rights Protection (CCRP) and a team of reporters visited CCpur district and met family members of the two girls who are among the girls to assess the report.
The two girls were from Gouchinkhup Veng, New Lamka CCpur district.
Their father was killed in an incident in 1997.When their father had expired, Haoneilam found it difficult to raise her children and maintain her family.
The two girls were handed over to the custody of Zoumi Mothers' Association after a relative of their father insisted their mother.
Later they were taken to the children home in 2003 .
Since their mother was illiterate, she could not read the terms and conditions of the Zoumi Mothers' Association at the time of taking custody of the girls, Haoneilam said.
Since then they could not hear any news about the welfare of the girls.
But members of the association often tell her that her daughters are fine and doing well in their study.
After a gap of more than seven years, the girls called their mother on a phone and told her that they were living their life in hell and asked her to take them back from the children home.
They also told her that there might be more than 20 girls from Churachandpur district in the children home.
Officials of the children home treated them cruelly and often beat them for nothing.
They were given only one piece of cloth throughout the year and they feed them with rice full of stones.
They also didn't provide them proper treatment when they fell ill, Haoneilam recalled how her daughters told her.
Haoneilam said that she had filed a written request to the Child Welfare Committee, CCpur district to rescue the girls.
According to SP in Charge of the district, M Rajen, family of the girls have not filed any complain to them.
However they will investigate the matter and tried their best to rescue them as well as punish the gang behind the heinous crime.