JOIN USA 14-year-old girl, who was left by a broker in the care of a rich realtor living in the posh Banjara Hills locality here, was rescued on Monday after facing repeated sexual exploitation behind closed doors.
The girl’s parents, who are from Devarakonda village in the backward Nalgonda district of Telangana, were promised by the broker that she would have a better life and be treated well.
Little did they know that Abhishek, the realtor whose house is on Road No 12, Banjara Hills, would sexually exploit the girl in a room away from the eyes of the odd visitor. She was also made to do day-long household chores and did not get proper food or clothing.
The Child Rights Protection Organisation (Balala Hakkula Sangham) and the Labour Department of Telangana state rescued the girl child labourer from Abhishek’s house, but only came to know about her being sexually abused later.
On a tip off, members of the organisation also rescued a 14-year-old boy, who is originally from Bihar, from penthouse Flat No 402 of Manisha Residency, which is opposite to the one where the girl was being sexually exploited.
The boy, who has now been sent to his home in Saidabad, was employed by a businessman named Gupta. The girl, meanwhile, was sent to the Kachiguda girls home and has been recommended for a medical examination.
Officials claimed that a politician had asked them for cases not to be filed against the “employers” and to leave the boy and girl in their care.
“While the operation was going on, a very famous central-level politician from Hyderabad telephoned us and asked us not to book the case against the employers and not to rescue the child labourers,” Balala Hakkula Sangham president Anuradha Rao said.
“It is a very unwelcoming thing. Unfortunately our politicians themselves are encouraging child labour, then how the agencies can work against the exploiters,” she questioned.
The children revealed that they were trafficked by unknown persons and were forced to work from dawn to midnight without proper food or clothing.