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Hundreds of girls are being kidnapped from across the country and brought to two villages in Rajasthan, where they are given injections to hasten their puberty and pushed into prostitution.
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A Headlines Today team has uncovered the thriving prostitution racket in Sodavas and Girvas villages of the state's Alwar region. The team found that villagers were giving the girls - some of them as young as 10 - repeated and unregulated shots of growth hormone Oxytocin to speed up their sexual maturation.
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"Gangs from the Bedia and Nutt communities kidnap girls, give them injections to make them reach puberty. The girls are then sent to Mumbai and even the Gulf for prostitution," said Rishi, a social activist in the area.
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The kidnapped girls, some of them six-month-old babies, are brought to Sodavas and Girvas from far and wide. They are raised by the villagers "as their own daughters".
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"Oxytocin causes several hormonal changes. Apart from early puberty, the girls develop feelings of love, trust and sexual arousal. This is how the hormone is being misused," said Dr Anuradha Kapur, gynaecologist at Max Hospital.
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The results are shocking: girls as young as 6 or 7 years old suddenly grow up to look like teenagers. Even their age on documents is forged.
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"Giving high, unregulated doses of Oxytocin can affect the centre nervous system, cause seizures and have other side-effects," said Dr Kapur.
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"The families are into prostitution since generations. They have been doing it since 1947," said Om Prakash Gujjar, a sarpanch.
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The Rajasthan police, however, denied any prostitution racket in the area or the use of Oxytocin injections on girls. A local police officer told Headlines Today that no complaint had been received about prostitution.
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Investigators are now focusing on the women in the area who have been issued passports over the last few years. They said there has been a mad rush among the women to travel abroad - a trend that indicates a well-organised international prostitution racket.
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Question: Effects of child prostitution in India Summary: This article mainly brings out the extreme effects of child prostitution in India; which another one of them is the unregulated use of Oxytocin (hormones injected) to hasten young girls who get kidnapped and hasten puberty and pushed into prostitution. The effects are seen thorough out large areas of the country but mostly in Mumbai and some other big states in India; the major effects are the girls health and mental conditions. And also the terrible experience some parents have to go trough when they lose their daughters. Reflection: I think this is a good article that shows the effects on those children who get put into prostitution. Their lives get ruined for ever; they never cover completely and those effects are with them for the rest of their lives. Very serious health effects as well as emotional and psychological. Questions:1. Why can't some of the parents oppose to that crazy tradition of having prostitution as a way of life. 2. Why don't we see that things get better even though there are a lot of people trying and helping to get this critical issue get somehow fixed? Citation:Hundreds of girls are being kidnapped from across the country and brought to two villages in Rajasthan, where they are given injections to hasten their puberty and pushed into prostitution.