Girl Child Married at 4, Divorced at 8

Now what would you say this report that an Indian Girl Child was Married at 4 & Divorced at 8. As per a report:

Four years ago, a four-year-old girl named Fatima became a victim of child marriage in Nakhi village of Shravasti district of Uttar Pradesh. Fatima's father Mangre, a poor labourer got her daughter married with a 14-year-old boy, Bakridi. Read more here at.................Girl Child Married at 4, Divorced at 8

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Child Shot Dead for not Washing Plates

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An 11-year-old Dalit child labourer was shot dead allegedly by a customer for refusing to wash plates at a roadside eatery in Shamli district in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Wednesday.

The accused, Jagpal, had gone to the eatery on Tuesday and asked the boy to wash plates for him. The child victim, who worked at the eatery, refused to do so, following which the man shot him, Deputy Superintendent of Police Prakash Kumar told reporters on Wednesday.

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11-year-old chained for disobeying uncle

MYSORE: Child abuse can't get worse than this. Sameer, 11, was found on Thursday with his hands and legs in chains in a bylane of Shaktinagar here. All because he didn't obey his uncle Asgar's orders to go to work.....Read more: 11-year-old chained for disobeying uncle

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Child Sacrifice Cases Stun India

New Delhi - Police in India's central state of Chhattisgarh have arrested seven people for allegedly sacrificing two children to gain 'supernatural powers,' officials said Thursday.

Witch-doctor Ishwari Yadav, his wife Kiranbai and five of their disciples were arrested after police found the bodies of a 2-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl at their home in Durg district Wednesday.

'The boy was killed on Tuesday and the girl was murdered some six months ago,' district police chief Amit Kumar said in a telephone interview. '(The suspects) were arrested for holding human sacrifices and have confessed their crimes.'

'During questioning the couple admitted that they had offered the sacrifices for appeasing the Hindu goddess Kali and attaining occult powers and wealth,' Kumar said. Read More................Child sacrifice cases stun India

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'Child Goddess' asked to go to school

Sambhavi was proclaimed and celebrated as a child goddess. Her parents claimed she was Dalai Lama's friend in an earlier incarnation, but the Andhra Pradesh State Human Rights Commission has ordered that the eight-year-old child from Kurnool district must go to school so her right to education is not violated. Read more..................Pressure builds to send 'child goddess' to school

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Forty percent of the world's child marriages occur in India

Forty percent of the world's child marriages occur in India, and 78,000 young Indian women die in childbirth and from pregnancy complications each year, according to UNICEF. Read More................Indian girl rails against early, arranged marriages

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Five ghastly child sacrifices suspected in village

Aurangabad: Police has arrested four people, including three women, in connection with five suspected child sacrifice cases.

Buzz up!Five boys, aged between 4-12, were killed in a village in Hingoli district between Dec 2009 and Mar 2010. Read More................Five ghastly child sacrifices in M'rashtra village

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Child dies after eating snake eggs, 4 ill

Sibsagar, Mar 3: Consuming snake eggs turned fatal for a 8-year-old child while four other boys are still battling for their lives in a hospital in Assam.

Buzz up!According to official sources the five children were playing in the fields when they came across snake eggs. Read More................Assam: Child dies after eating snake eggs, 4 ill

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High prevalence of child marriage in India

A large proportion of women in India were married when they were still children, a study has found, and researchers warned that such unions carried higher risks of unwanted pregnancies and female sterilization. Read More................High prevalence of child marriage in India

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Couple buries baby girl alive

Vadodara: A couple, along with their son, has been remanded to judicial custody for burying alive their fourteenth child, a newborn girl, in Jalodra village in the district. Read more............Couple buries baby girl alive

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11-year-old ends life over homework

NAGPUR: Life ended cruelly and prematurely for 11-year-old Pallavi Uchitkar. An ace student of Sindhu Girls High School in Jaripatka, Pallavi attempted suicide by burning herself on December 30 over some homework left incomplete. On Saturday, she succumbed to her burns. Read more......................11-year-old ends life over homework

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3-year-old sold for Rs 50

REWARI: In an ironic twist to Haryana's love for the male child, a poor woman in Rewari district has allegedly sold her three-year-old son for Rs 50. Kanta Devi, a housemaid, sold her son to a family in Gurgaon. Read more.......................................3-year-old sold for Rs 50

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Woman sells Child for Husband's memorial service

PATNA: A poor Hindu woman in Bihar sold her infant son to raise money to perform the 'shradh ceremony' (memorial service) of her husband. But she was arrested before she could hand over the child to a childless couple, a police official said on Tuesday.

Parvati Devi (name changed)-- in her early 20s and a resident of Patwa Toli in Gaya town, about 100 km from here -- said she was forced to sell her 45-day-old son due to abject poverty. Read more......................................................Woman sells child for husband's memorial service

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Stepmom buries 6-year-old alive

In New Delhi a woman has been arrested from her Seemapuri residence for burying her six-year-old stepdaughter alive, after stuffing the child's mouth with mud. Read full story.................................Stepmom buries 6-year-old alive

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Poverty forces couple to sell child for Rs.12,000

In Bihar state of India, Pushed to desperation by acute poverty, a Dalit couple was forced to sell their toddler son for Rs.12,000 (US$ 285) to raise money for another baby battling an unknown disease. Read full story here........................Poverty forces couple to sell child for Rs.12,000

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Infants thrown off roofs to thank God

In a weird religious tradition a village in Solapur,in Maharashtra state of India, has a dangerous tradition of throwing newborns from a height of 50 feet onto a sheet, which is held by devotees.

The infants are thrown off the roof of the Baba Sheikh Umar Saheb Dargah in Musti village in Solapur. This is an age-old tradition practiced by couples who are blessed with a child after taking a vow at the dargah. The devotees also believe that this ritual is good for the health of the child. Read more..............................Incredible India! Infants thrown off roofs to thank God

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3-yr-old booked under Criminal Act

Another core neglect on the part of policemen......................3-yr-old booked under Goonda Act, two policemen suspended

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Embryo found in 3-month-old's stomach

In a bizzare medical case, doctors at SCB Medical College in Cuttack city in Orissa state of India removed an embryo from the stomach of a three-month-old baby boy. A team of 10 surgeons, anaesthetists and paramedics removed the one-kilo embryo after a four-hour operation. The embryo had developed bones, limbs, and even fingers and hair, hospital sources said.

"This is the first time in the state that such a developed embryo has been found inside an infant. Such deformities are found in one child among 10 lakh," the hospital's urology head Duteswar Hota said. "The infant was born with the embryo and can also be referred as a non-cancerous tumour," Hota added. Read more.............................Docs remove embryo from 3-month-old's stomach

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Miraculous Escape

A newborn baby girl survived an ignoble birth after slipping down the toilet bowl of a moving Indian train onto the rail tracks when a 33-year-old pregnant woman from a village in Rajasthan unexpectedly gave birth while relieving herself near Ahmedabad city in Gujarat state of India. Read more...................................Pregnant woman uses train toilet and baby slips out

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Every three seconds, one child dies in India

Every three seconds, one child dies in India.

Every year 2.1 million children in India do not survive to celebrate their fifth birthday, and one out of every five children under age of five dying worldwide is an Indian, according to the United Nations' Children Fund (Unicef). Read more................................................2.1 million Indian children die every year, says Unicef

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