Girl Sold

Ignoring the family's plea, Cedar was sold for $902, of which the fair was owed $63 and eventually slaughtered, leaving the girl inconsolable.

When he was a witch doctor, Moussa Diallo would regularly smear himself in a lotion made from a clitoris cut from a girl subjected to female genital mutilation.

A 14-year-old girl turned up at a police station here, with a two-month-old baby, and revealed a trail of crimes which began three years ago when she was sold to a man in Haryana by her aunt.

The alleged crime ring, dubbed the "California Girls," travelled up and down the California coast as well as to 10 other states.

The Mumbai Crime Branch arrested three people, including a couple accused of selling their children to arrange money for buying drugs and rescued a one-month-old baby girl from Andheri on Friday. A search for the second two-year-old son is going on.

The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) successfully rescued a 14-year-old girl who was forced into domestic servitude. The rescue operation, conducted in collaboration with local authorities, has shed light on the ordeal faced by the young girl.

A poverty-hit Odisha tribal woman, who was saddened by the birth of a second girl child, allegedly sold her eight-month-old daughter to a couple for a measly Rs 800, police said.

Five people have been arrested for abetting child marriage and human trafficking in Madhya Pradesh's capital Bhopal, police said.

A seven-year-old girl was allegedly sold for Rs 4.50 lakh to be married off to a middle-aged man in Rajasthan's Dholpur district, police said.

Police have arrested three men and a woman for allegedly selling a 17-year-old-girl for Rs 50,000 to a person in Madhya Pradesh's Raisen district, an official said on Sunday.

A 17-year-old girl from Madhya Pradesh who left on a trip after her class 10 exams ended up being abducted and sold as a bride twice, a Child Welfare Committee (CWC) official here said on Tuesday.

A man in Madhya Pradesh's Satna allegedly died by suicide as he was dealing with a severe financial crisis.

The intriguing story of how a "shy" teenage Pakistani girl travelled on her own to Bengaluru to meet and marry an Indian man was revealed by her uncle who said she sold her jewellery and borrowed money from friends to buy air tickets.

Even in this 21st century there are incidents of girls being treated as a commodity and used as medium for financial benefits, the Bombay High Court has said while granting bail to a woman for "purchasing" a one-year-old child.

Flipkart officials were questioned by Delhi Police officials, after the company responded to a notice by the Delhi Police, stating that the acid used in an attack on a girl from Dwarka was sold by an Agra-based firm. The police said that the officials were questioned on Wednesday, and that they were not satisfised with the responses provided by the...

Ignoring the family's plea, Cedar was sold for $902, of which the fair was owed $63 and eventually slaughtered, leaving the girl inconsolable.

When he was a witch doctor, Moussa Diallo would regularly smear himself in a lotion made from a clitoris cut from a girl subjected to female genital mutilation.

A 14-year-old girl turned up at a police station here, with a two-month-old baby, and revealed a trail of crimes which began three years ago when she was sold to a man in Haryana by her aunt.

The alleged crime ring, dubbed the "California Girls," travelled up and down the California coast as well as to 10 other states.

The Mumbai Crime Branch arrested three people, including a couple accused of selling their children to arrange money for buying drugs and rescued a one-month-old baby girl from Andheri on Friday. A search for the second two-year-old son is going on.

The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) successfully rescued a 14-year-old girl who was forced into domestic servitude. The rescue operation, conducted in collaboration with local authorities, has shed light on the ordeal faced by the young girl.

A poverty-hit Odisha tribal woman, who was saddened by the birth of a second girl child, allegedly sold her eight-month-old daughter to a couple for a measly Rs 800, police said.

Five people have been arrested for abetting child marriage and human trafficking in Madhya Pradesh's capital Bhopal, police said.

A seven-year-old girl was allegedly sold for Rs 4.50 lakh to be married off to a middle-aged man in Rajasthan's Dholpur district, police said.

Police have arrested three men and a woman for allegedly selling a 17-year-old-girl for Rs 50,000 to a person in Madhya Pradesh's Raisen district, an official said on Sunday.

A 17-year-old girl from Madhya Pradesh who left on a trip after her class 10 exams ended up being abducted and sold as a bride twice, a Child Welfare Committee (CWC) official here said on Tuesday.

A man in Madhya Pradesh's Satna allegedly died by suicide as he was dealing with a severe financial crisis.

The intriguing story of how a "shy" teenage Pakistani girl travelled on her own to Bengaluru to meet and marry an Indian man was revealed by her uncle who said she sold her jewellery and borrowed money from friends to buy air tickets.

Even in this 21st century there are incidents of girls being treated as a commodity and used as medium for financial benefits, the Bombay High Court has said while granting bail to a woman for "purchasing" a one-year-old child.

Flipkart officials were questioned by Delhi Police officials, after the company responded to a notice by the Delhi Police, stating that the acid used in an attack on a girl from Dwarka was sold by an Agra-based firm. The police said that the officials were questioned on Wednesday, and that they were not satisfised with the responses provided by the...