9 babies abandoned in Hyd since lockdown began

The two-month-long lockdown has pushed thousands of poor families into extreme poverty. And standing testimony to this are records of the Telangana women’s child and welfare department that throw up a heart-wrenching trend: as many as 33 infants, all of them below the age of six, were abandoned in Telangana between January and May of which nine were given up by their families in Hyderabad — all of them during the lockdown. Of the 33, 25 are girls.

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