Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu), Oct 29(ANI): A Coimbatore-based missionary has been accused of falsely projecting young Buddhist girls from Nepal as "orphans" of murdered Christians to raise funds globally from British and American churches.
According to the Telegraph, parents had paid a child-trafficker over 100 pounds to take their daughters to schools in Kathmandu, but instead they were brought to Coimbatore's Michael Job Centre, a Christian orphanage and school.
At the school, the girls were converted to Christianity and given western names.
They were later given serial numbers and profiles on several websites, which were used to attract financial sponsors from around the world.
The charity claimed that the girls had been either abandoned by their parents who did not want the financial burden of raising girls, or were orphaned after their "Christian" parents were murdered by Nepal's Maoist insurgents, the report said.
The scandal was busted by officials with the help of an anti-trafficking charity run by a retired British Army officer.
Twenty-three children were rescued during the raid.
The British group, the Esther Benjamins Trust, had found that none of the girls were from Christian families. Very few were, in fact, orphans and some of the girls had been kept apart from their families for up to ten years. (ANI)
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