When shelter homes turn into horror homes

They were supposed to be a place where women in distress could live a life of dignity, can rehabilitate themselves economically and emotionally, but instead, shelter homes for women are turning out to be brothels. A social audit by a Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) brought to light the sexual abuse of 34 girls at a government-run shelter home for girls in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. It was followed by another case in Deoria in UP where a 10-year-old girl escaped a shelter home and exposed the exploitation of the girls who lived there. These incidences have left the country startled, but sadly aren’t new.

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