C’garh: 6 kids sexually abused in orphanage
Soon after the shocking exposure of sexual exploitation of 12 minors in a kanyashram, a state government-run residential school for tribal girls, at Jhaliamari in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Kanker district, another such incident came to fore in an orphanage at Durg, nearly 70 km from here on Saturday.
At least half-a-dozen boys, inmates of Bethel Children Home, a privately-run orphanage at the district headquarters town of Durg, have allegedly been forced to have “unnatural sex” with an official of the centre, a complaint lodged by the Child Helpline, an NGO working for welfare of the destitute children, with the local Mohan Nagar police station, said.
“Two persons including the alleged offender and caretaker of the Bethel Children Home G. Dilip Kumar and its director B.Rajdu were on Saturday arrested in connection with sexual abuse of six children in the centre and later remanded to judicial custody. Medical tests have been conducted on the alleged victims. We are waiting for the medical reports”, Durg district deputy superintendent of police (DSP) C.Bhatt told this newspaper.
According to the child helpline official Madhu, the matter came to light when the NGO rescued four inmates, who fled the centre on March 26.
The children narrated their woes before the NGO officials. The NGO officials came across the alleged sexually abused victims when they visited the orphanage for a probe.
“We have relocated all the 40 inmates, including girls, of the orphanage to different government-run children homes in Durg. The alleged victims appear to be in a state of shock. Steps are being taken to give them counselling before their proper rehabilitation”, a senior police officer in the district said.
Earlier, the alleged sexual exploitation of 12 minor tribal girls in the Jhaliyamari kanyashra had sent shock waves across the state.
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