Thanks to Good Samaritans, GTB Nagar's seven-year-old resident won't have to spend her life shackled to her bed. Following mid-day's front-page report on the child who has been chained to a cot for her safety by her mother, the city Child Welfare Committee (CWC) has stepped in to rehabilitate the girl. Apart from them, the Shree Gurusingh Sabha in Dadar has also come forward to help, offering to take care of her educational expenses till her graduation.

The seven-year-old dropped out of school last year, and spends all day and night chained to her bed in her family's pavement dwelling at GTB Nagar in Sion because her mother Sapna Kaur is scared of her safety following the kidnapping, rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in Mahim. mid-day had reported about the family's plight in a front-page report titled, 'Chained' on February 22.