Panaji: An inquiry into affairs of 'Apna Ghar', a state-run shelter home for children, has revealed that the staff was "scared" of the minor boys there and did not even sit next to them.
The Goa government appointed Levinsons Martins inquiry has pointed out that the staff has told the committee that they even feared for their life as some of the inmates have assaulted them in the past.
The inquiry report was tabled on the floor of the House during the ongoing State legislative Assembly session.
In further revelation, the inquiry officer found that the caretakers did not sit in the dormitory gallery as they were "scared" that the boys may attack them as there are no doors to the dormitory and boys have open access to the gallery....
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12:50 PM, Aug 04, 2012
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court's probe team has suggested that CRPF security be provided to the inmates of the shelter home in Rohtak that is at the centre of a baffling sex abuse case. The HC probe panel made the recommendations after its report found shocking details of sexual exploitation of the inmates. The report said that the children at the Apna Ghar hostel were forced to perform...
11:46 AM, Jun 15, 2012
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court probe panel report on the Rohtak shelter home, Apna Ghar, has made shocking revelations. It says that the children were forced to perform oral sex and naked yoga. The report also says that about 101 inmates of the home were subjected to various forms of abuse. The shelter home inmates were used as construction labourers. A speech and hearing impaired girl was sold...
09:39 AM, Jun 14, 2012
The Maharashtra Women and Child Welfare Ministry will adopt the four daughters of a woman labourer from Beed district who died during an illegal abortion last month. ...
10:53 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Days after the woman in-charge of Haryana's Apna Ghar shelter was arrested, investigations have revealed that prolonged sexual abuse may have left some of the inmates mentally ill. ...
10:40 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Chandigarh: The Haryana government has swung into action in the Apna Ghar shelter horror case. This after CNN-IBN had exposed how girls are being raped and forced into prostitution in the shelter home. The state's Women and Child Welfare Minister has promised to rehabilitate victims and book all culprits. For five years, it's been a journey through hell for a sexual abuse victim. Poverty forced her to leave her home...
06:34 AM, Jun 09, 2012
