5-Mar-013
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : “She looked happy and smiled when she was given a new
dress,” said S.K.Ratheesh , a staff of Childline, a 24-hour emergency service
for children in distress, about two-and-a-half-year-old Annu (name changed).
The rescue team at Childline found her on Monday on the streets at Ottur, near
Kallambalam, in the company of seven stray dogs and a mentally challenged
grandmother.
The team had received a call on 1098, the 24-hour emergency number for children
in distress, on Sunday night. “The caller said he had seen the child in
pathetic living conditions, abandoned by the mother during mornings when she
goes for work. The only company was a mentally challenged old woman. We reached
the spot on Monday morning. She wore no dress, street dogs were playing around
her, and the whole place was in a very deplorable condition,” said Mr.
Ratheesh.
The team informed the police and with the help of a few local people drove away
the dogs and rescued the child.
“The elderly woman, presumed to be the child’s grandmother, did not say a word
or react when we took the child. We informed the Child Welfare Committee and as
per the order, the child was taken to the childcare centre at the Missionaries
of Charity home at Kunnukuzhi,” said the staff.
The child’s mother, who the local people say is working at a pump station near
Attingal, has been asked to present herself before the committee hearing on
Tuesday. Further actions will be taken after a meeting with the child’s mother,
said an official at Childline.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/childline-rescues-girl/article4477843.ece
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