In loo-less Delhi slum, kids go missing from forest toilet

June 14, 2016 11:51

About 66 children from a slum cluster in the Capital didn't return from a nearby forest where they had gone to answer the call of nature because their shanties lacked lavatories.

They were among 171 children who went missing in the forest near Shahbad Dairy, a slum in outer Delhi, between December 2013 and March 2015.

More horrifying is the fact that five children -- four of them below 10 -- were killed; 28 girls have been raped and another 17 sexually abused.Saksham, an NGO, arrived at the disturbing figures by analysing RTI replies for missing children of the slum during the 15-month period.
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