Children raped, forced to eat faeces in Indian school - police

The owner and manager of a children's boarding
school in Maharashtra have been arrested after
five minors said they were raped, forced to
watch pornographic films and act them out with
one another, police and charity workers said.
The children were made to eat faeces as a
punishment if they did not comply.
The 52-year-old owner of the Chandraprabha
Charitable Trust and his 30-year-old female
manager were arrested on Monday after a police
raid on the school in Karjat city. Continue...
"We received a police complaint from the
Childline charity saying that one child had gone
home for the holidays and confessed to his
mother that abuses were happening," Karjat's
Police Inspector R.R. Patil told the Thomson
Reuters Foundation late on Thursday.
"Five children in total have now come forward
and we have booked the two suspects under
various offences," he said, adding that these
included unnatural sex (sodomy), wrongful
confinement and sexual assault.
The school accommodated 28 underprivileged
children, aged between 4 and 14, for 10 months
of the year, said Patil, but most were on holiday
at home at the time of the raid.
Police were trying to find out whether other
children were abused and if there were any other
suspects.
Anuradha Sahasrabudhe of Childline, a charity
supported by the government, said the children
had spoken about all kinds of sexual and
physical abuse.
"It's a horrific case. The children have been
telling us about the sexual abuse going on there.
There has been oral sex, there has been forced
sex... These things have been photographed,"
Saharasabudhe told the NDTV news channel.
"Children have been punished by making them
eat dog excreta and when they vomited, they
were made to eat vomit," she added.
Police say the residential school had been
running since 2002, but was not registered and
had therefore escaped government inspections
by child welfare officials.
Source: Reuters