Poor Indian Boy TIED to a metal pole after a Beating because his Parents couldn't Repay a Loan

Poor Kid! Unnamed boy age 9, in photo above was said to be have been starved, beaten and tied up  to a metal pillar outside of New Delhi while being kept as a slave at a coal yard, after his parents failed to repay a loan. The Indian Express confirmed this photograph to be genuine.

Neighbors who heard him screaming freed the little boy while enduring an hour-long beating with a stick, and they chased the man off and called the police. The little boy often work unregulated hours in factories or farms more than slave.

The practice of taking so-called bonded children as a guarantee against the parents paying off a debt is increasingly common, despite the fact is illegal in India. In India, coal is offered to the poor at a subsidized rates by some depot owners who will also accept bonded children - whose parents had taken loans but not paid them back - in order to pay off the debt

.But detectives said that when they went to the man's house in the city of Ghaziabad near the New Delhi border he and his family had vanished. 

 

 

 

Credit: CEN via Mailonline