Kerala Orphanages

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  19-Year-Old Man In Kerala Arrested For Sexually Abusing 2 Boys

  A 19-year-old man was today arrested for allegedly sexually abusing two boys at an orphanage near Kochi, two years ago.

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  Christian Priest Arrested For Alleged Sexual Assault Of 2 Minor Boys

  A Christian priest in Kerala has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting two minor boys of an orphanage for two years, police said today.

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  Kerala Rape Case: One More Accused Surrenders Before Police

  One more person charged with covering up the rape of a minor girl allegedly by a Catholic priest in Kottiyoor in Kerala's Kannur district surrendered before police today. Thangamma Nelliyani, the second accused, surrendered around 7.00 am. She will be produced before a court today, Peravoor Circle Inspector Sunil Kumar said. Thalassery Additional S...

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  Six Youths Arrested For Raping 7 Kerala Orphanage Girls

  Six men were arrested on Tuesday for raping seven inmates of an orphanage near Kalpetta, police said. Statements of the girls - all students of Classes VIII and IX - were recorded by a magistrate earlier in the day.

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  Minor Girls From Orphanage In Kerala's Wayanad Sexually Abused For 2 Months, 6 Men Arrested

  For two months, seven girls were drawn out of their orphanage in Kerala, threatened and sexually assaulted by a group of six young men.

• Kerala High Court Takes Up Alleged Case of Child Trafficking

  Orphanages across Kerala have come under the scanner after the High Court today took up a suo motu case against alleged child trafficking in the state. The court has asked the state government to submit a list of all the children living in orphanages across Kerala, even those from other states.

• 23 Boys Rescued From an Unregistered Kerala Orphanage

  21 boys from Jharkhand and two from West Bengal have been rescued from an orphanage earlier this week on Kollam.

• An Uncertain Future for Alleged Victims of Child Trafficking in Jharkhand

  Three days after 120 children, all alleged victims of child trafficking, boarded a train from Kerala to Jharkhand, they finally alighted at the Jasidih Junction in Jharkhand, but perhaps to an uncertain future.

• Trafficking: 59 Children from West Bengal to be Sent Home

  More than 100 children from Jharkhand, brought for orphanages in Kerala without proper documents recently, were sent back home while 59 boys from West Bengal would be returned to their home state in the next two days, state government said on Tuesday.

• Opposition Demands Answers on Children 'Rescued' in Kerala

  As many as 579 children, 'rescued' from Kerala's Palakkad station last month, have become embroiled in a major controversy that is now acquiring a political tinge.

• Over 100 Children from Jharkhand to be Sent Home

  As many as 123 children from Jharkhand, allegedly trafficked to Kerala for being taken to orphanages, will be sent back home on June 9.

• Railway Police Unearth Inter-State Child Trafficking Racket

  An inter-state child trafficking racket, allegedly engaged in supplying children to orphanages in Kerala mostly from eastern states, has been unearthed by Railway police with the arrest of eight persons who had brought over 500 children to Kerala by train.

• Probe ordered into functioning of Kerala orphanages

  Kerala State Human Rights Commission has ordered a comprehensive enquiry into the functioning of orphanages and shelter homes for the poor and destitute in the state.

• Three arrested in Kerala over forced marriage of minor girl

  After an appeal for justice made by a 17-year-old teen who was forced to marry a UAE national by a Muslim orphanage in Kerala, police have arrested three accused in the case.

• Kerala teen forced to marry a man from UAE, sexually abused and abandoned

  Till June this year, she lived in an orphanage in Kozhikode and dreamt of a better life by studying further. Then, says a 17-year-old in Kerala, she was forced into marriage with a man from the United Arab Emirates, who sexually abused her for two weeks and abandoned her.