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| Saturday, 9 November 2002 |
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by Asela Kuruluwansa, Indika Polkotuwa and Kandy Group Correspondent Central Province Health, Indigenous Medicine, Probation and Child Care Minister Saliya Bandara Dissanayake has ordered the Probation and Child Care Commissioner of Central Province to conduct a full scale inquiry on the alleged incident where a 13-year-old girl of a Children's Home in Peradeniya delivered a child in a private hospital in Kandy. The Minister has ordered the officials to close down this children's home. The Minister in a press conference yesterday said this children's home has been conducted without the approval of his Ministry. Arrangements have also been made to shift the children in this home to other homes under the Central Province Probation and Child Care Department. Dissanayake said there are 29 children's homes controlled by the Department of Probation and Child Care of the Central Province. All these children's homes are doing well. But information has been revealed on various illegal activities conducted in several children's homes which have not obtained state approval. He said a racket selling children to foreign countries is being conducted in several children's homes in the Central Province. When the Daily News contacted Peradeniya Police, an official said a 13 year-old-girl raped by her own father had later been handed over to a children's home by her parents. Police denied reports that this home has been run by a foreigner fraudulently. Police investigations revealed that the Children's Home has been registered at the Ministry of Social Services, Battaramulla under registration number of FL 52711. The Home has been conducted by the woman at Bowalawatta, Peradeniya for the past 10 years with funding from the Netherlands, Police said. |
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