Indian Parents Are Plotting Their Daughters Murders More Carefully

Jaisalmer, June 18, 2012

According to the local medical authorities, members of some communities, infamous for killing baby girls, have now found a new way to make the deaths look ‘natural’. The baby girls are either not fed enough or deliberately not given medical treatment for illnesses. The authorities came across three such cases in Tejmalta and Mandi villages of the district during the last 10 days. On Friday, Dileep Singh was arrested after his daughter, who was born on June 13, died in the absence of proper treatment. Keku Kanwar delivered a healthy baby at Tejmalta on June 8 but was brought to the Jhinjhinyali primary health centre in serious condition the next day. The baby did not survive. On the same day, the death of yet another baby girl was reported, following which the entire family is missing.

District collector Shuchi Tyagi accepted the fact that some people are deliberately resorting to inhuman methods in order to save themselves from the law. Tyagi said it is a planned conspiracy and of the three recent cases, the newborns were buried in the backyard of the house. They also use chemical or salt so that body gets destroyed quickly.  Full report here

Baby Afreen Breathes Her Last: Killed by her Dad For Being Born A Girl!

Bangalore, April 11, 2012

Three-month-old Neha Afreen Banu, who suffered grievous physical injuries inflicted by her father, breathed her last on Wednesday in Bangalore Vanivilas Hospital. She died after suffering a cardiac arrest.

Afreen, born on January 17, 2012 was tortured by her father Omar Farooq who was upset that Afreen was a girl and not a boy.   Medical reports indicate that Afreen was a victim of shaken baby syndrome (child abuse caused by intentional shaking), she suffered very deep internal injuries including neck dislocation and subarachnoid haemorrhage (bleeding in the brain),  and intraocular haemorrhage (bleeding in the eyeball) due to the head injury.  Besides suffering from respiratory attack, convulsions, melena (stool with blood discharge), Afreen also had cigarette burns and bite marks on her body. Report here

A few weeks ago, another infant girl, baby Falak similarly battered, struggled for her life and died in a hospital in Delhi. Report here

Mother Crushes Baby Daughter’s Head

Nasik, Maharashtra, October 03, 2011

Vaishali Kiran Ahire, a resident of  Nandgaon district, in Maharashtra, was upset about giving birth to a second girl child 40 days ago.  While visiting her parents, she crushed the baby’s head with a grinding stone,  two dacoits had broken into the house had done it. Read report here

New Born Girl Found Killed in A Canal

Jaipur, Rajasthan, January 25, 2011

The police found the body of a newborn girl, killed and dumped in a canal near Naugama, a small village in Banswara district.  Earlier families used to practice female foeticide, but after the government announced monetary incentives for couples to have girls,  families now go to the hospitals with an eye on the money offered.  However, soon after leaving the hospital, the newborn girls “disappear”. In some cases they are killed while in others the families just throw them away. Read the report here

One-Day-Old Baby Girl Strangled By Mother

February 08, 2006

A women who strangled her one-day-old daughter to death while still in hospital and insisted for four days that she had died a natural death, confessed to her crime today. Pammi, a 25-year-old from Bihar’s Nalanda district, said,“I did not want a girl child. It’s considered a bad omen back in our village in Bihar. So I killed her.” Read the full report