MP SHOCKER: newborn brand with hot iron rods as a ‘cure’ for pneumonia
A family in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain district burned their one-month-old baby with hot iron rods to ‘cure’ pneumonia.
Madhya Pradesh News: In a horrific incident fueled by superstition and ignorance, a newborn was reportedly branded with hot iron rods by his own relatives as a ‘cure’ for the pneumonia the child is suffering from.
According to reports, the incident came to light in Ujjain district of Madhya Pradesh when the family took the child to a government hospital, where doctors quickly noticed the brutality the child was subjected to in the name of “treatment”.
Doctors said the month-old child was taken to the children’s ward of the government hospital in Ujjain suffering from high fever and cold. While diagnosing the baby, doctors were shocked to discover that the family – residents of a small hamlet near the Mahidpur area of the district – had branded the child with hot iron rods as a ‘cure’ for the disease .
“The child’s family wrongly believed that using burning sticks on the newborn’s body would cure him,” a doctor said, adding that the hospital immediately informed the police and a case has been registered against the child’s parents and other family members involved in the incident.
Child victims of superstition
Recently, children have often become victims of painful and sometimes even fatal superstitious practices. In February this year, a three-month-old girl in Shahdol district of Madhya Pradesh died after being branded 20 times with a hot iron rod by a female faith healer as part of her “traditional methods” of curing ailments.
The gruesome incident was the second of its kind in Shahdol district, days after a two-and-a-half-month-old girl died after being subjected to a similar practice. According to police, the second victim was taken to a faith healer by her mother. However, the charlatan poked the child more than fifty times with a hot iron rod, under the pretext of ‘healing’ her.
The victim was taken to Shahdol Medical College where she succumbed. The police had exhumed the child’s body for medico-legal purposes and booked the so-called “healer” under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Drugs and Magic Remedies Act.
Days after the Shahdol incidents, a similar case was reported in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh, where a one-year-old toddler died after a local tantrik broke his teeth and allegedly threw him to the ground several times in an attempt to kill him. cured’. of ailments.
According to reports at the time, the deceased, 1-year-old Anuj, was taken to the tantrik by his family after he fell ill. The family alleged that the so-called ‘healer’ threw the child to the ground and even broke some of his teeth under the pretext of ‘healing’ him.
When the family realized that the toddler had lost consciousness and was unresponsive, they rushed him to a private hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead.
The victim’s family later carried the child’s body to a police station and demanded action against the tantrik, who was later arrested following an FIR against him based on the complaint of the relatives.
Ballia child bathes in boiling milk
More recently, in July, a viral video showed a toddler being bathed with boiling milk by a priest as part of a religious ritual in Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh. The bizarre incident took place in Shravanpur village of the district where the priest from the holy city of Varanasi performed the ‘ritual’ on the child.
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In the video, the priest, identified as Pandit Anil Bhagat from Varanasi, places the child on his knee while taking scalding foam from a pan of boiling milk and smearing it all over the toddler’s face and chest even as you hears the child crying incessantly.