NEWS
Another racket involving sexual exploitation of minors has been busted in Gaya where a meditation centre and school became the perpetrators of exploitation and misery for the inmates.
Kalyani Dwivedi is an Educationist based in Jharkhand.
A case was registered by the Gaya Police against a man whose NGO ran a school and meditation camp in Gaya. The man has been booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POSCO) and several IPC sections.
The man caught of running a racket in which young boys were sexually assaulted was brought to the forefront when the inmates of the school complained about their plight to a monk who came visiting.
A Buddhist monk came for a visit to the Mahabodhi temple in Gaya and dropped in at a school and meditation centre nearby to check on the ten boys from Assam who he had helped get admission there.
The revelation made by the boy, took the monk by hock. The tale of chilling stories of sexual exploitation and abuse took him by shock. The ten year old boy from Assam pleaded to the monk to take them all away from there. The 32 boys of the school and meditation centre have undergone medical test.
A case has been registered against the man who ran the school and the meditation centre. The district has also made a three member committee to look into the matter and conduct an investigation of the NG0. This comes as another shocking reminder of the plight of child care home and schools in Bihar.
This month the State has already suspended 24 officials on account of negligence in matter of sexual exploration of kids. The Muzaffarpur shelter home abuse case is still fresh in the memory of the nation as a collective. The boys from the shelter home in Gaya have narrated their experience of sexual exploitation.
The Police are waiting for the medical examination results to come out. The state of shelter homes in Bihar has recently come into brought light as e see innumerable such cases here children have been subjected to e=sexual exploitation in homes where they were actually supposed to be taken care of.. It is an irony of the nation that despite having completed 69 long years of independence we are unable to secure a safe and healthy life for our children.
These children are under state supervision and yet they feel cheated and exploited. It is time to not only regulate and monitor our shelter homes but also to stand accountable to the citizens of this country who in their vulnerable times get exploited repeatedly.
Who is responsible for the misconduct met out to these children? Who is responsible for the fact that we as a collective aren’t able to give them a life they ought to lead?
