Pooja Gaud, a 16-year-old girl, has been reunited with her family nine years after she was kidnapped in Maharashtra, India.
The young woman disappeared on January 22, 2013, at the age of seven, when a couple treated her to ice cream outside her school in Mumbai. That day, Pooja went to school with her older brother, but they had a fight and her brother left her. It was then that the couple took her in, promising to buy her ice cream.
Police said Harry D’Souza and Sonya D’Souza, a pair of kidnappers, took the girl away because they had no children. Pooja said she went to school at first, but the couple threatened her if she cried. After that, Harry and Sonya had a biological child, and things got even worse. BBC news.
“I was beaten with a belt, kicked, punched. They beat me once, and I bled from my back. They were also forced to do household chores and work outside the home from 12 to 24 hours,” the girl said.
Pooja’s mother says she has “already given up hope of ever finding my daughter.” However, the girl managed to access the couple’s cell phone while they slept, and searching the internet found several posters that mentioned her kidnapping.
Seven months later, Pooja asked for help from a colleague who called one of the numbers listed on the posters. First, Pooja spoke to her mother via video link, and only then did they agree to meet.
The girl’s mother, seeing a mole that only she knew about, was with her daughter, had no doubt that it was Puja. “All my doubts were immediately dispelled. I knew I had found my daughter,” the woman says.
Author: morning Post
Source: CM Jornal
