Missing child found in a house

9 December 2010 08:16 am

A six-year-old child who is believed to have gone missing after the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 has been found in a house in Wellampitiya, the National Child Protection Authority said.

The Chairman of the Authority Anoma Dissanayake said that the child was a couple of days old at the time she went missing.

 The NCPA carried out investigations on information received from a telephone call from the Galle area. The inquiries revealed that the child had been sold to the caretakers by a staff member of a hospital in the South.

According to the caretakers, the child was sold to them for a sum of Rs 2500 by an unknown lady as she was unable to bring up the child.

Mrs. Dissanayake requested the parents whose children were reported missing after the tsunami to come and take a DNA test, to help reveal the parentage of the child. She is now in custody of  NCPA which is currently carrying out investigations on the matter.

The caretakers were arrested and will be produced before the Hulftsdrop Magistrate court this evening. (Sanath Desmond)