Bengaluru: One Arrested In It Firm On-Campus Daycare Faclity Child Abuse Case

Along with one arrested, police are on the lookout for 4 fellow caretakers who are said to be absconding after the incident was exposed through video recordings of their alleged mental and physical harassment to toddlers. The total strength at the day-care facility is about 50 while on a daily basis as many as 15 toddlers were made to stay at the facility.

Following the allegations against its on-campus day-care facility in Bengaluru, a statement from Capgemini India, it closed its on-campus day-care facility in Bengaluru, as a precautionary measure and assured its cooperation with the relevant authorities and assisted them in their efforts to establish facts.

A couple of days back, some video recordings were brought to the notice of members of the Child Helpline Control Room and they acted on it to register a police complaint. A complainant to Child Helpline Control Room had brought to the notice of members of Child Helpline that some toddlers aged 1 year and above at the day-care facility were allegedly abused by caretakers by indulging intimidation, putting noise making toddlers to washing machine to shut their mouth, locking up inside toilets, toddlers were sprayed with jet sprayed attached to the toilet among other abusive behaviour towards toddlers.

The Child Helpline Control Room members along with jurisdictional police made a upon spot inspection of the day-care facility but the inspection found nothing direct to establish abuse of toddlers at the facility and a complaint against 5 caretakers was registered at HAL police station based on video recordings at the facility which went on public domain.