Trafficked 2 years ago, woman returns pregnant & mentally imbalanced

Rashmi Drolia

29-Apr-2014

RAIPUR : A 22-year-old pregnant woman, who was trafficked to New Delhi two years ago, was sent back to Jashpur’s Manora region after she suffered mental imbalance.

Stamping truth on all earlier claims and survivors’ versions, this woman is one of the hundreds of cases of adverse effects of human trafficking that young girls have to go through.

Hailing from Sarjula village, this woman was trafficked to Delhi by a local tout for some placement agency. She conceived recently.

Usually, tribal girls are sent to random households putting their safety at risk where they get beaten, sexually assaulted, pushed into prostitution and more often than not, sold for marrying elder men. Woman’s mother told Jashpur child welfare committee (CWC) that she was sexually and mentally assaulted, beaten everyday at the household where she used to work. “She was absolutely normal before leaving for Delhi,” her mother said.

According to locals, the woman was rejected by her family after she delivered the child few days ago and when she was found carelessly fleeing the newborn in air on the streets, CWC was informed.

CWC officer Vinay Tiwari said that it was another challenge to rescue the child from his mother’s hold as she became violent and pelted stones at them. “Finally we managed to rescue both of them and have shifted them to a rehabilitation centre where the condition of newborn is normal except that he’s underweight,” Tiwari said.

Times Of India has persistently reported about the human trafficking menace and its adverse effects on girls and women, who go missing, return pregnant and mentally ill or never return at all. Despite several initiatives taken by Union ministry of women and child to combat trafficking by introducing special schemes for Jashpur girls, state government has displayed little or no inclination to implement them. They easily shrug off responsibilities from department of women and child development to state commission for protection of child right and from child welfare committee to labour department.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/raipur/Trafficked-2-years-ago-woman-returns-pregnant-mentally-imbalanced/articleshow/34389639.cms

Mentally ill woman denied admission at government hospital

16-Apr-2014

A Selvaraj

CHENNAI: A 40-year-old mentally-ill woman, who was pregnant, was on Tuesday shuttled between Nazarethpet near Poonamallee and Government General Hospital here where authorities refused to admit her. She was later entrusted to an NGO in Thiruverkadu.

An inspector of the Nazarethpet police said they had been informed by passersby about a woman roaming the streets in a night gown early in the morning. “After we found she was pregnant, we informed volunteers of NGO, Udhavum Karangal, who asked us to take her to GH,” he said.

Soon, the ‘108’ ambulance service was called and staff took the woman to GH where the hospital authorities denied admission saying she needed a caretaker.

She was brought back to the Nazarethpet police station and then sent to the NGO home in Thiruverkadu. “We have a clinic on our campus and two psychiatrists. Initially, she didn’t cooperate with doctors and refused to allow the staff to take a urine test,” Udhavum Karangal founder-director S Vidyakar said.

Later, doctors examined her and said she was healthy. “We tried to get her to speak through various means, but she never uttered a word,” said a doctor.

The woman gave her name as ‘Eswari’ on one occasion and later said it was ‘Kavitha’. “We are not sure of her name. She might be from the same or a resident of a nearby area,” Vidyakar said.

When contacted, a senior official in GH said they could not deploy an attendant for every patient. “In this case, the woman was mentally ill and we didn’t have a facility to take care of her along with the other patients. We never ditch anyone on the road. We ask the ambulance staff to take the patient back to the place from where he/she was picked up.”

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Mentally-ill-woman-denied-admission-at-government-hospital/articleshow/33797167.cms

Mentally ill woman raped by 3 over a period of time

6-May-2013

Narayan Namboodiri

MUMBAI: The Nehru Nagar police on Sunday arrested three youths for allegedly raping a 24-year-old mentally ill woman over a period. The matter came to light when the victim’s brother came to know during health check up of his ill sister that she is six-month old pregnant.

Senior inspector Bhimdev Rathod said the victim revealed the incident only after several hours after her brother convinced her to name the accused. “The three accused — – Ravi alias Salim Shaikh (22), Kalu alias Prashant Kamble (23) and Salman Shaikh (19) — use to rape her on different occasions. The incident has occurred in front of victim’s sister. But she too is mentally ill and didn’t retaliate when the victim was raped,” said Rathod. After the incident came to light a complaint was lodged against the trio. The complainant works as a labourer and resides with his two sisters in Hanuman Nagar in Kurla (East). On Friday, the complainant found out that his sister was pregnant. In the complaint, the victim’s brother said, “When I inquired about it I found out the names of two men and immediately reported the matter to the police. The accused too are labourers.”

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Mentally-ill-woman-raped-by-3-over-a-period-of-time/articleshow/19911034.cms?

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