Five-year-old girl stays with dead parents for 2 days

Amit S Upadhye / TNN / Dec 27, 2007, 03:27 IST

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Five-year-old Monisha has forgotten the rhymes she's been singing since she joined LKG at a private convent recently.

Five-year-old girl stays with dead parents for 2 days

BANGALORE: Five-year-old Monisha has forgotten the rhymes she's been singing since she joined LKG at a private convent recently.
Lying on a bed in the intensive care unit at M S Ramaiah Memorial Hospital, Bangalore, all that a shocked Monisha can remember is her mother trying to strangle her with a dupatta. She screams endlessly, remembering the gory incident, unaware that her parents are no more.
Her parents, Nagesh and Sandhya, committed suicide by hanging at their house in Saraswatinagar, Bapuji Layout, in Vijayanagar police limits on Monday.Though her mother tried to kill her, she escaped death. The unconscious Monisha woke up to find her parents hanging from a fan.
The tragedy came to light when the shocked child opened the door for her uncle on Tuesday morning. She was immediately rushed to hospital. She is yet to understand what it is to be an orphan, and her relatives, too, have no clue about her future.

Doctors attending on Monisha are positive that she will recover from her injuries. But they are not sure when she will be able to get over the mental trauma. "At present, she is hysterical and irritable. She is in the ICU, but her vital parameters are stable. The girl does not realize the gravity of the situation and what she has undergone in the last 48 hours,"said Dr Naresh Shetty, chief of the hospital.
"We are yet to recover from the shock of losing the happy couple. This apart, even the little girl is in the hospital bed. Once she recovers, the elders will decide about Monisha's future," Thimme Gowda, advocate and brother-in-law of Nagesh told The Times of India.

Nagesh was an assistant manager in Duckworth Flavours India Private Limited in Whitefield, where he worked for the past eight years. His colleagues, who saw him last on Friday, are shocked. "We have no clue what might have driven the couple to such an extreme step. He behaved normally on the last working day at the office," said K G K Murthy, the owner of the company, who, along with Nagesh's colleagues, visited the hospital.
Nagesh's father Bette Gowda, a resident of Kilara in Kunigal taluk, settled in Bangalore after retiring as assistant commissioner in the labour department a decade ago. Nagesh lost his father eight years ago and his mother soon after.

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