Begging

Save the Children India | How children are forced into begging by cartels 3 lakh children across India are forced to beg,using everything from addiction to drugs, to threats of violence and actual beatings. Save the Children India

Forced child begging; is when child are forced to beg on the streets, by the parents or by the traffickers. In the article “Drugs are also used to keep children sedated” “It is common to see women pretending to be mother with a ‘sleeping’ child”. This tells that the child how is with them may or may not be their child as it might be a child who has been kidnapped and being used for trafficking. They are also chances of family’s renting their babies or children to beggers of whom they then get the money for renting the baby or the child.

In the article is also says that the people are offered government facilities and also right to educate but they force their children to beg. This mostly happen in poor community’s when the family is uneducated and has been through the same processs.

There are also some cases where some children’s are kidnapped ( form poor to rich backgrounds) and used for begging where the traffickers do things like cutting of limb, making blind and other scary steps to make them look poor and disabled so that the people feel sorry for them and give money.

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