Kidnapped 16-year-old Indian Girl Escapes, Reunites With Family 9 years Later, Narrates Ordeal | Sahara Reporters

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Pooja Gaud, 16, is finally able to meet her mother again after nine years of her disappearance. Pooja, who was seven years old at the time, went missing on January 22, 2013. She claimed she was picked up from outside her school in Mumbai, Maharashtra, by a pair who enticed her with an ice cream.

BBC reports that it took her seven months before she could muster enough courage to discuss it with Pramila Devendra, 35, a domestic help who worked at the same house where Pooja worked as a babysitter.

Ms Devendra immediately agreed to help her. One of the numbers on the missing poster connected them to Rafiq, a neighbour of Pooja's mother. The mother-daughter first spoke on a video call and then a meeting was arranged.Her mother says she checked for a birthmark only she knew existed on her daughter and on finding it, she was overcome with emotion."All my doubts were immediately gone. I knew I had found my daughter," she says.

Pooja's father, the family's lone earner, died of cancer four months ago. As a result, her mother took up his work selling snacks at a train station to support herself and her three children. However, her wages are pitiful, and she is fighting to make ends meet."Now I also have legal expenses. Our condition is such that if I miss a day's work, we won't have money for food the next day."Pooja is still traumatised.

 

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