“MP: NCPCR inspects St Francis Child Home, registration missing, illegal funds accepted; conversion suspected”, Organiser, May 16, 2023:
“The chairperson of the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), Priyank Kanoongo with members of the Madhya Pradesh State Child Commission, visited the missionary children’s home in the Sagar district. During the visit, hostel authorities misbehaved with a female commission member. A minor boy enrolled in the hostel was found missing and hence probe has been initiated on the complaint of the Child Welfare Commission, Sagar (CWC).
Apart from the arrest of miscreants misbehaving with the female members and the missing complaint of the minor boy, the commission found irregularities with the documentation. The lease of the land was expired so was the registration, the institution was accepting foreign funds in the name of student scholarships, pets were locked in cages, land allocated for school was used for residential and agricultural purposes and religious conversion was suspected.
It is pertinent to mention that a 16-year-old tribal girl was hired as a cook in exchange for a monthly wage. The name of a Hindu girl (major) was changed in the documents which show the conversion….”
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