Rewa (MP), October 30
An alleged instance of sexual abuse of at least two former inmates of an NGO-run adoption centre in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa has come to light, officials said today.
A complaint in this regard was raised by an American couple who had adopted a girl and a boy, both aged below six years, from Aanchal Shishu Kendra, an adoption centre run by NGO Nivedita Kalyan Samiti.
Acting on the complaint, authorities have shut down the centre and launched investigation. District Collector Om Prakash Shrivastava today said the two children were adopted by a California-based couple in June this year through Central Adoption Resources Agency (CARA).
“The American couple has raised a complaint claiming that the children adopted by them revealed, during a post-placement counselling session in the US, that they had been sexually abused at the Aanchal Shishu Kendra in Rewa,” the collector said.
“We are investigating the complaint. Initial probe suggests that these kids were abused,” said Rewa SP Abid Khan. Nivedita Kalyan Samiti official Arunendra Singh has denied the allegations. — PTI
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