Boy forced to get sex changed

[Butterfly]

Boy forced to get sex changed


09 Nov 2008
Express News Service
Express Buzz


BANGALORE:  A 16-year-old boy, who was kidnapped and coerced into prostitution by eunuchs after his sex was changed, was rescued by the city police on Saturday.

With this arrest, the police claimed to have busted a major racket in the city.

The boy has been indentified as Chandrashekhara (16), of T Dasarahalli in Peenya. The arrested Basawaraj alias Mangala (26) of Vajarahalli in Nelamangala and Madhu alias Baby (20) are also said to have undergone sex change.

[Kaweah]

India has a long history of stories of such abductions.  In this case, it appears a surgeon and a financier was involved, which certainly is a break from history.

The boy revealed that he had gone to Kadapa and underwent a couple of surgeries and got his sex changed before being named as Shilpa. The only son of labour Venkatappa was then forced into the business of prostitution and begging. The money he collected from the day was given to Rajanna, who had financed his surgery in Kadapa. Rajanna had also made the arrangement of Rs 50,000 for the breast transplant in a city hospital.

The boy has been admitted to Victoira hospital for rejuvenating his genitals. The Chief Minister's office has come forward to bear the medical expenses for the operation, they added.

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