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   NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The owner and manager   
   of a children's boarding school in western India have been   
   arrested after five minors said they were raped, forced to watch   
   pornographic films and act them out with one another, police and   
   charity workers said.   
      
   The children were made to eat faeces as a punishment if they did   
   not comply.   
      
   The 52-year-old owner of the Chandraprabha Charitable Trust and   
   his 30-year-old female manager were arrested on Monday after a   
   police raid on the school in Karjat city in Maharashtra state.   
      
   "We received a police complaint from the Childline charity   
   saying that one child had gone home for the holidays and   
   confessed to his mother that abuses were happening," Karjat's   
   Police Inspector R.R. Patil told the Thomson Reuters Foundation   
   late on Thursday.   
      
   "Five children in total have now come forward and we have booked   
   the two suspects under various offences," he said, adding that   
   these included unnatural sex (sodomy), wrongful confinement and   
   sexual assault.   
      
   The school accommodated 28 underprivileged children, aged   
   between 4 and 14, for 10 months of the year, said Patil, but   
   most were on holiday at home at the time of the raid.   
      
   Police were trying to find out whether other children were   
   abused and if there were any other suspects.   
      
   Anuradha Sahasrabudhe of Childline, a charity supported by the   
   government, said the children had spoken about all kinds of   
   sexual and physical abuse.   
      
   "It's a horrific case. The children have been telling us about   
   the sexual abuse going on there. There has been oral sex, there   
   has been forced sex... These things have been photographed,"   
   Saharasabudhe told the NDTV news channel.   
      
   "Children have been punished by making them eat dog excreta and   
   when they vomited, they were made to eat vomit," she added.   
      
   Police say the residential school had been running since 2002,   
   but was not registered and had therefore escaped government   
   inspections by child welfare officials.   
      
   Child sexual abuse is disturbingly common in homes, schools, and   
   residential care facilities in India.   
      
   Inspection mechanisms for children's homes, shelters and schools   
   are inadequate and many privately run facilities are not even   
   registered, a February 2013 report by Human Rights Watch said.   
      
   In May 2012, serious sexual abuse was uncovered at a well-   
   established residential care home for orphans called Apna Ghar   
   (Our Home) in Rohtak on the outskirts of Delhi.   
      
   Girls said they were forced to have sex with strangers for money   
   and that they had been abused.   
      
   http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/30/us-india-abuse-   
   idUSKBN0EA0E320140530   
      
       
      
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