Girls drugged into puberty, sold as prostitutes
Forced into puberty, prostitution
A Headlines Today team has uncovered the thriving prostitution racket in Sodavas and Girvas villages of the state's Alwar region. The team found that villagers were giving the girls - some of them as young as 10 - repeated and unregulated shots of growth hormone Oxytocin to speed up their sexual maturation.
"Gangs from the Bedia and Nutt communities kidnap girls, give them injections to make them reach puberty. The girls are then sent to Mumbai and even the Gulf for prostitution," said Rishi, a social activist in the area.
The kidnapped girls, some of them six-month-old babies, are brought to Sodavas and Girvas from far and wide. They are raised by the villagers "as their own daughters".
"Prostitution is a tradition in our community," said Ram Prasad, a village panch.
Unregulated use of Oxytocin
Oxytocin is injected by unscrupulous farmers into vegetables to make them grow faster and bigger or given to buffaloes by milkmen to boost milk yield.
Oxytocin injections are available across the counter in Alwar and are codenamed 'Goli Number 10'. Almost every chemist stocks Oxytocin although the area has absolutely no cattle population or farming.
"Oxytocin causes several hormonal changes. Apart from early puberty, the girls develop feelings of love, trust and sexual arousal. This is how the hormone is being misused," said Dr Anuradha Kapur, gynaecologist at Max Hospital.
While there are variations of the drug for human use, the injections given to the girls are the ones meant for animals.
The reason is apparent. "Veterinary Oxytocin is more effective and easily available," said Dr B.D. Gurnani, a local child specialist.
The results are shocking: girls as young as 6 or 7 years old suddenly grow up to look like teenagers. Even their age on documents is forged.
"Giving high, unregulated doses of Oxytocin can affect the centre nervous system, cause seizures and have other side-effects," said Dr Kapur.
"The families are into prostitution since generations. They have been doing it since 1947," said Om Prakash Gujjar, a sarpanch.
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That's a dilemma.
ReplyDeleteDo we have any right to tell them to stop if it's part of their tradition?
meh... if their parents are all for it, then who am i to interfere?
ReplyDeleteWhoa messed up
ReplyDeleteThat's really gross. There are some sick people in the world...
ReplyDeleteWhoa man, whatever floats your boat..
ReplyDeletegiving growth hormones to little girls, wow that's horrible. What is this world coming to?
ReplyDeletepretty fucked up, sick fucked up people.
ReplyDeleteThat shit is fucked up. i dont care about tradition, This needs to be stopped. Now.
ReplyDeletein india...damn im surprised...
ReplyDelete"Prostitution is a tradition in our community," said Ram Prasad
ReplyDeleteNo wonder why India is India..
that sucks.
ReplyDeletethat is fucked up shit who would give little girls them pills
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ReplyDeleteJust isn't right.
ReplyDeletewe can't tell them to stop like they can't tell us to start
ReplyDeleteThats horrible..
ReplyDeleteWoah....that's wild..
ReplyDeletePretty disgusting stuff...
ReplyDeleteThat's terrible
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ReplyDeletethis is a good follow up post to the previous one
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Bleh... Its good for studying right?
ReplyDeleteWow, this is pretty fucked up.
ReplyDeletesad to think that happens. Listen to the "daddy' song on my wall...somewhat relevant.
ReplyDeletethere's a great documentary about the indian sex trade called born into brothels. very sad. with as large a population as they have there's no way that people won't slip through the cracks.
ReplyDeleteGeez, I wonder how this affects their DNA. Anytime drugs are introduced into the cycle, mutations occur.
ReplyDeleteAnother reason to hate those god damn Indians.
ReplyDeletethanks for the comments on my blog!
ReplyDeleteSo sad,...
ReplyDeletebut the world keeps walking
messed up stuff. =P
ReplyDeleteAnother reason to hate Indian people. Awesome.
ReplyDeleteIt's unfortunate that science is being used in such a horrible fashion.
ReplyDelete"The families are into prostitution since generations. They have been doing it since 1947," Such divergent culture.
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