This savagery must stop

Their childhood is wasted in a nightmarish environment where brutal torture is the punishment for the slightest mistake or the failure to please the employer.

The jobs are not guided by any kind of rules. They get very little for working beyond their endurance and are subjected to all kinds of harsh treatment. Quite a few torturers have been exposed to full public glare by the press and some of them have even faced legal proceedings. But the situation has not changed.

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Torturing minors on any pretext whatsoever is something no sane human being can approve of. But it is still taking place and more and more budding lives are being threatened by extreme forms of maltreatment in different households.

It is, however, a positive development that people in general are showing a greater sensitivity to the problem. Such incidents are often reported to police by neighbours. Obviously, a social resistance against the insidious practice would make the perpetrators realise that their inhuman activities are condemned unequivocally by the people. It must also be ensured that the torturers are brought to justice under the child repression act.

Finally, a rehabilitation scheme for such helpless children must be adopted. The number of existing homes for children that give shelter to the abandoned minors is far from adequate. We need a radical capacity-building there, given the ever swelling number of rootless children.