Should Child Beggars be given Money or Not?

By siliconindia   |   Friday, 14 October 2011, 22:40 IST   |    54 Comments
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Such a case was reported by CNN this year. A 7 year old Bangladeshi boy was brutally mutilated by gang members as he refused to beg. The boy was hit on the head with a brick and his throat was slit. When his mother found him, he was hardly recognizable. This young boy survived and has become the key witness in a national investigation against the gang members in question. Shocking everybody, a report by the Human Rights Commission in India has said that apart from begging, children are kidnapped for various purposes, "Working as cheap forced labour in illegal factories, establishments, homes, exploited as sex slaves or forced into the child porn industry, as camel jockeys in the Gulf countries, as child beggars in begging rackets, as victims of illegal adoptions or forced marriages, or perhaps, worse than any of these, as victims of organ trade and even grotesque cannibalism."