Even as the first batch of 82 children, rescued from bangle-making units in Hyderabad, head back home to Bihar, shocking details have emerged that about 30 per cent of the rescued children had been rescued earlier. They had been brought back by traffickers to work for the very same employers in the same bangle-making units, within six months.
The brazen act shows a lack of follow-up and rehabilitation, and the continued vulnerability of the children. None of the children admit that they have been brought back after having been rescued. Each one of them says he came just 10 days or a month ago. But records are available with labour and child welfare officials to prove that these very children have been rescued earlier.
12-year-old Deepak is among the children who have been rescued. He was also among the bunch of boys rescued and sent back in June 2014. He is convinced he can never go to school because he has the responsibility of fending for his younger brother and sister.
Around the Government Boys Home, a number of people claiming to be 'parents' of the rescued children can be found. While one woman was unable to say where in Bihar she was from till she was prompted by another man, another kept making differing claims on how many of her children had been rescued. Officials have said there is every reason to suspect these were not genuine parents.
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