Teenage domestic worker beaten to death in Malir Cantt

Karachi

A young boy lost his life to the barbaric temper of his employer at a house in Phase I of the Malir Cantonment on Thursday.

Sixteen-year-old Anas, son of Abdullah, breathed his last at the Jinnah Hospital where he was brought in a critical condition. He was severely beaten up by his employer, Aneela, with a stick.

The woman was reported to have lost her temper after her son was hurt while playing a game with Anas. 

The boy, according to police, hailed from Jacobabad and had been working at the woman’s house for the past 10 years.

The police had registered a case but no arrests had been made so far, particularly since the woman hails from an influential family. 

Human rights experts say the data on violence against children working as domestic workers is one of the hardest to collect. Cases of violence surface at the worst possible situations, when a child is brought to the hospital after being severely beaten or when the employer fears that the victim might die, says Memon, who is the coordinator for Sindh with the movement – a consortium of NGOs working for child rights in the country. “The daily abuses are conveniently shoved under the rug and hundreds of thousands are living a miserable life.”