A missing child is a parent's worst nightmare. While on an average 174 children go missing every day, half of them remain untraced. As per the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report 2018, more than one lakh children (1,11,569 in actual numbers) were reported to have gone missing till 2016, and 55,625 of them remained untraced till the end of the year. Many of the kidnappings/abductions end tragically in rape, assault and death.
Dheeraj (10 years) and Swati (9 years) had gone with few villagers to visit another village in Kendujhar district of Odisha. On their way, they stopped to eat but never returned. Villagers tried to find them but couldn’t hence they returned back to the village and informed their parents. After hearing the news, parents got shocked and started to look around but couldn’t trace their children. In the meanwhile, CHILDLINE received a call from a concerned caller from Kendujhar district, Odisha informing that he found two children roaming alone on the street. The caller informed that when he asked the children about their whereabouts, they could not communicate properly. Hence he called CHILDLINE for help. After getting all the possible details, CHILDLINE Kendujhar team reached the caller’s house and took charge of the children. CHILDLINE team informed the case details to the Child Welfare Committee and as per verbal order, the children are kept in a shelter home for a day. As per CHILDLINE’s intervention procedure, the children went through the medical checkup and counselling. During the counseling session, children narrated the incident and gave all the family details to the team.
CHILDLINE team got in touch with their parents over the phone and informed them regarding their missing children. After the standard process and enquiry, Child Welfare Committee gave the order to CHILDLINE team to hand over the children to their parents.
Disclaimer: Names and details have been changed to maintain confidentiality as required.
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