The Girl Child- A brutal tryst with the truth…*and we thought this was history(?)(!)*

WARNING: NOT FOR THE WEAK HEARTED.

Female infanticide, foeticide, homicide… all too common. We hear it everyday in the news, read about it in the papers, but never has all that led to such a tremor in my mind as this particular incident…

"arre saala koi fenk ke chala gya...kise chahiye ladki aajkal...",
said the voice of a mortuary worker who’d already seen too much… The autopsy to be conducted was of a 1-day old girl whose 45cm body was found in bushes with placenta and brought to the mortuary soiled and dirty and stinking .
After an hour-long procedure of age determination; the hunt for cause of death lead to the cranium. There was full blood in the head confirming the fact that “saala koi fenk ke chala gya..kise chahiye ladki aajkal” (some arsehole threw it and went, who wants a girl these days?!) .

Here is a picture of the autopsy…

(sorry, the picture had to be deleted due to legal issues)

The autopsy revealed that it was a live birth with lungs inflated and no abnormality whatsoever was detected!

Why was she killed? What ancient ideology are the people of India still holding on to? Are we the ones who have created this with our age old customs of dowry, sati etc ?

Give this one a thought…