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Victim of a social evil: Meena, a 13-year-old ‘child wife’, being taken to hospital on Saturday. SALEM: With blank stares, Meena sat on the hospital cot in her school uniform of white blouse and green full skirt. The 13-year-old girl, studying at 8th standard in a government higher secondary school, could neither speak nor walk. The doctor at the Taluk Head Quarters Hospital at Omalur near here, who attended on her on Saturday, said that she was in a state of shock as she had suffered multiple bruises and fractures. She has to undergo immediate surgical and gynaecological treatment, the doctor told The Hindu. Meena, a Vanniyar by caste, is the child wife in suffering. This girl of misfortune, a victim of a sordid social custom, prevailing rampant in this part of Tamil Nadu, is fighting for her very survival. Her 26-year old husband, a weaver, abused her cruelly, said a group of social activists who rescued her from her husbands village on Saturday amid stiff opposition. Meena, who nurses the ambition of becoming a doctor, was forced to marry a relative exactly a month back immediately after attaining puberty. Though her elder brother Shanmugam and a few others opposed it, her widowed mother blessed it claiming that she got an oral assurance from her in-laws for the continuation of her studies. The kids married life however had been a nightmarish one. She was forced to remain indoors. Mentally she became a wreck. A few days back I received a letter from my sister pleading me to rescue her. I approached the Alternate India Development (AID) activists and together we rescued her on Saturday morning, said Saravanan. Her precarious health condition forced them to rush her to the hospital directly from the house. Her husband however denied these charges. She is my wife, were his words at the Womens Police Station where he was brought for interrogation. Police however said they were waiting for the medical report.
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