An infant is separated from her mother after a gang sold her off to another couple. Another baby is kept at the government-run Sishu Gruha, after being abandoned by her biological parents.. These are some of the many heartbreaking stories of the babies housed at the Sishu Gruhas across the State.
While the officials are celebrating ‘World Breastfeeding Week’ (Talli Pala Varotsavalu) from August 1 to 7, many orphans and semi-orphaned babies cry themselves to sleep in the Sishu Gruhas, with ayahs doing their best to take care of them.
Recently, a gang sold a female infant for ₹2.7 lakh to a woman in Pedavegi mandal of Eluru district. Police, who arrested ten persons in the racket, including the adoptive mother, have sent the biological mother to a Child Care Institution (CCI), as she was a minor.
