Evangelist orphanage managers booked for assaulting minor daughters

Mumbai : A 42-year-old-woman filed a police complaint against two managers of an orphanage in Vasai area for allegedly beating her daughters and forcing them to do all the household work and providing them food of poor quality. Meanwhile, the two managers have also filed an FIR against the woman for “defaming” them.

Following the complaint filed late on Friday night by Seema Creado, a hairdresser, a case was registered under Section 23 of The Child Care and Protection Act 2000 against under Sister Eliza and Sister Polet of the Handmaids of the Blessed Trinity Rosa Mystica Convent, Vasai (west).

Reacting to the complaint, Sister Eliza said the case was “an attempt to defame the organisation which is doing social service.” Later, on Sunday, the two nuns lodged an FIR against Seema for defaming them.

Seema, in her complaint, said that the two sisters used to force her daughters Elaysa (5) and Triziya (15), who are staying at the convent, to do all the household work like washing utensils, sweeping, cleaning cloths and washroom etc. She alleged that when the girls refused to do the work, the two nuns used to beat them up badly. Commenting on her complaint, Seema told The Asian Age, “They were harassing my daughters, so when they informed me about it, I lodged the complaint.”

Seema also alleged that she had stayed in the same orphanage between October 2015 to January 2016 and noticed that 16 girls were brought from Bihar to convert them into nuns and nurses, and when they refused to become nuns or nurses they were allegedly beaten up by Sister Eliza and Sister Polet. Sister Eliza rubbished the claims made by Seema.

“Seema just wants to defame the orphanage. We provide good quality food to our girls, and we have never beaten up any of them,” Sister Eliza told The Asian Age.

Source : Asian Age