Nanny drugs, rents out baby to beggars
Bangalore: A nanny hired by a couple in India’s IT hub of Bangalore regularly drugged the seven-month-old baby in her care and rented him out for Rs100 a day, to be used by street beggars, the Times of India newspaper reported yesterday.
Early every morning, the couple used to dress their baby in the finest of clothes, keep fresh milk and eatables ready and leave the child in the hands of the nanny who was hired through an established agency.
But as soon as the couple left, the nanny used to mix sedatives in the milk and dress the kid in torn and dirty clothes, the report said.
For the entire day the drowsy child would be carried by a beggar on her shoulders and dropped back in the evening.
The nanny, in the meanwhile, used to spend her time watching television and eating all stuff left behind for the kid.
The couple were quite confused at finding their child inactive and drowsy all the time. He never used to play or create a ruckus, the report added.
One day the child’s mother found her baby missing when she returned home early from work at a multi-national firm, the report said. On questioning the maid, the later confessed to have been rented out the baby and assured her that the child would be returned by evening.
The mother was shocked to discover her child come back dressed in tattered and dirty clothes and being carried by an unknown woman whose job it was to beg daily.
Rising female employment and a preference for nuclear families in India means more children are being handed over to hired help for care when parents go off to work.
Sources say that Bangalore has a flourishing begging racket run by a mafia and the daily earnings run into a few lakhs. The mafia has divided Bangalore into zones and they send out the beggars. Each day agents take a huge pie of the earnings and give a few rupees to the beggars, mostly women. Sometimes, targets are fixed for the beggars and if they fail to `achieve’ the sales target, they are sacked. - Agencies
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Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor
with two sources of income i hope the nanny got taxed accordingly.
i hate tax cheats!
@Snessy
You can try Starfish Lane Kids. Got my son enrolled there.They've got a long waiting list, but well worth the wait.
We live in a oompound near Riviera Gardens, so its a short drive.
No sweat.... Take it easy.... :)
oops!sorry lion_king...forgot to recheck b4 posting...will do so in the future....sorry again!cheers! :-)
Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor
http://www.qatarliving.com/node/790469
thats absolutely shocking....
well that depends largely on ur budget,u see.there are quite a good number of 'good nurseries'(good usually refers to the fee structure....fees is directly proporational to quality of care taken :-P) around town.but i can't really pin-point a particular one.i'm sure QL mommies can help snessy on this one....
Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor
I'd prefer my child to be in a nursery rather than alone with a maid at home. There's usually more than one teacher in a nursery. Children can get hurt no matter where they are to be honest, my son sports a new bruise every week and he's with me all the time.
BTW - Any recommendations for a good nursery?
i just got reminded of those scary nanny-surveillance camera footage that were doing the rounds on the internet a while ago.seriously insane what those frustrated women do to the children... :-S
Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor
oh i don't know what i would do if i were in that mom's shoes.. i'd probably choke the nanny to death... :P
LOL,snessy...did i just deprive some nursery of a prospective customer? :-P
Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor
How dare she? Horrifying...what if the couple saw their child in the hands of some beggar in the street...I will get a heart attack if I see it...
Is the salary of the mother worth all this torture the baby has to go through??
Thanks Svelte, you've filled me with confidence now. I'm not sending my son to nursery anymore, LOL!
that's why keeping the household help "under surveillance" helps somehow.. a CCTV inside the house (without them knowing that you have one) is good..
Reading all these kind of news make me feel sick.Everyday when I go home and see my kid running towards me makes me think "Is my job worth all this".Though she spends only 3 hrs with my maid(full time) after school we will never know when these maids will behave weird here.
I really pity that mother.May god bless the kid and the mom.Hope the kid is alright now.
my parents put me in a day-care when i was around 2 years old...when we moved to doha for the first time.my Ma recalls that on Day 3,i came home with a bleeding nose.it seems some kid had punched me on my nose so hard that it bled.that was my last day at day-care :-)
Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor
Svelte, I'm with you on that one. I don't trust anyone with my son, I'm already struggling to cut the cord for him to go to nursery soon.
But, some people have no choice but to have maids/nannies, which I totally respect too.
oh yes i will....and will stick to it even if it means quitting my job for a while.my family is more important to me than my job.
Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor
"i know i'm never going to hire a nanny to look after my kids if/when i have them"
Tell that to me when you get there :P....lol
Yeah....begging is a syndicate....
I wonder how they sack an underperforming begger?...lol
it could have happened to anyone,y'know.... :-S i know i'm never going to hire a nanny to look after my kids if/when i have them
Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor
what the packing nanny...
This makes me feel physically sick
how horrible.. :/