7/04/2015

17year old Teenager commits suicide after parents refused to build toilet

Firstclass newsline~An Indian teenager, Khusboo Kumari, 17, committed
suicide because her parents refused to build a toilet in the house,
police said on Saturday.
"It seems she had repeatedly asked her parents to build a toilet in
the house as she was embarrassed to go out to the fields to defecate,
but they ignored her.
"Kumari was found hanging Friday inside her home on the outskirts of
Dumka town in the eastern state of Jharkhand,'' superintendent of
police Vipul Shukla, was quoted as saying.
Her parents reportedly told her that they were saving money for her
marriage and could not spend it on a toilet.
The officer said the initial investigation suggested Kumari committed
suicide but that all possibilities were being looked into.
According to the 2011 census, Jharkhand is one of India's poorest
states, lagging in many development indicators and about 78 per cent
of households there do not have toilets.
In India, women have the added problem of lack of security if they
have to use open fields away from their homes at odd hours.
"The girl's parents did not realise how important it was for her to
have a toilet at home,'' it further said.
Firstclassnewsline.net

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