The Ranchi police (in Jharkhand) have arrested an employee of a hospital run by the Missiona-ries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, and placed two nuns in custody on charges of selling children.
The Indian Express reported that the three women took newborns from single mothers and then sold them to other couples. In a note issued by the Generalate [in Calcutta] Sr Mary Prema, superior of the congregation, says: “We are completely shocked by what has happened in our home. It should never have happened.”
The arrest is happened. Shyamanand Madal, head of the Kotwali police station, reports that a case has been opened against Anima Indwar (the employee) and the two nuns according to section 370 of the Indian Penal Code [which punishes those who traffick human beings, ed. ]. Then he adds that “clear evidence was collected against one of the nuns, who could be arrested soon.”
Suspicious, the social workers questioned the nuns: at the end one of them said that the child was taken away by his mother after she was discharged from the structure. “We contacted the woman – continued Tiwari – who instead told us that the child was not with her.
