Mother gets back abandoned child from ‘ammathottil’ when adoption procedures began

Thiruvananthapuram: A mother who left her girl child at the ‘ammathottil’, the electronic

cradle Kerala State Council for Child Welfare (KSCCW) in which a child could be placed

anonymously, retrieved the baby after seeing an advertisement regarding the adoption

mother approached the committee after recognising her child through the advertisements.

She revealed to the officials that she was compelled to abandon her child after her partner

broke the promise of marriage. Following this, the woman’s family too urged her to desert

the child and she was forced to leave the child at ‘ammathottil’. Later she went to work

abroad.

In February, she approached the committee and submitted the photograph of the child and

the details of the health card she left with the child in the ‘ammathottil’. After the DNA test

conducted two days back, the committee gave the girl child back to her mother.