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'I will never send my daughter to such a trust again'
Updated On: 08 December, 2009 02:02 PM IST | | Amit Singh
Says the father of Anila, one of the girls 'rescued' from the charitable trust
Says the father of Anila, one of the girls 'rescued' from the charitable trust
Emotions took centrestage as cops from the Faridabad police knocked at the gate of Flat No 134, Sector-21, Faridabad on Monday morning.
The cops were accompanied by two couples, who had filed a police complaint against a charitable trust, accusing it of converting their daughters to Christianity.
As the caretaker of the flat, used by the Comademat Charitable Trust, opened the iron gate, the parents searched the dim rooms till eight-year-old Anila Paswan alias Mary, emerged from one of them and ran to her mother, Radha. Behind her came her younger sister, six-year-old Sony and another girl from the trust, Shivani alias Damaris, whose parents had also filed a complaint. For the next 15 minutes, the girls held on to their parents, inconsolable.
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Back as a family: As six-year-old Sony hugged her mother, her elder sister, eight-year-old Anila alias Mary, sat with their father Suresh Paswan. |
In MiD DAY first
On Monday, MiD DAY had reported how the charitable trust, managed by a couple from Brazilu00a0-- Aldemir De Souza and his wife Darleneu00a0-- had allegedly converted 15 girls to Christianity and given them new names. The parents of three girls said the trust had been avoiding their attempts to contact their children for a month.
The girls were handed over to the trust by their poor families about a year ago. In return, the parents were assured the girls would be provided good education, free food and accommodation.
Suresh Paswan, Anila's father, said, "We have met our girls after six months. For the last couple of days we were very tense. My wife has been crying continuously and didn't even eat anything. Now that we have got our daughters back, we can't stop crying. We can't thank MiD DAY enough. I will never hand over my children to such a trust again."
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The girls were rescued by cops from a Faridabad trust on Monday. Pic/ Vijay Kumar Read Next Story Trending StoriesLatest Photos |
