'Staff giving overdose of sleeping pills': Juvenile home girls cry torture, threaten suicide in Andhra Pradesh

VISAKHAPATNAM: A few inmates of the girls' juvenile home near Visakha Valley School climbed the compound wall and alleged that the staff had been torturing them by 'converting' them into mentally unstable persons with an overdose of sleeping tablets.


They even threatened to commit suicide by jumping from the wall.

After a few minutes, they came out on the road where their parents joined them in the protest. Video of the girls shouting went viral on social media on Wednesday, prompting the state govt to order an inquiry.

The juvenile home in charge, Sunita, said that following instructions from senior officials, mental care hospital authorities would examine the health condition of five girls, who are allegedly not taking medicines and blackmailing the staff for the past three days.

Sunita said that they were taking one girl among the five for counselling everyday as her psychological condition is not stable.