Chennai: A goodwill gesture by two women constables in rescuing a 12-year-old boy, who bunked his school, from Marina Beach had given only nightmares to the boy who reportedly suffered harassment at the Government Children Home for boys in Royapuram. It took about a week for the boy to be ‘released’ from the home.
The boy, a student of a corporation school, bunked his afternoon class, and went to Marina when trouble began. Two women cops, in civvies, picked up the boy for questioning on February 2 at around noon. The boy told them that he was from Sathyamoorthy Nagar, and that he had bunked school while his father who works as a painter had gone out of station for work.
Mindful of the boy who was vulnerable, the women cops admitted the boy to the home in Royapuram since they could not reach the boy’s father.
The boy, soon after landing in the home, was ‘grilled’ by the staff who also thrashed him with a rubber tube. The nightmares continued for the boy while the boy’s father returned on February 4 to learn that his boy had gone missing.
The boy’s father learnt from his neighbours that his son was admitted to the home in Royapuram by cops who found him loitering in the beach. It took the boy’s father until Tuesday for the hearing of Juvenile Justice Board to get the boy ‘released’. The boy’s father was separated from his wife nine years ago. Since then, the boy had been living with him.
