8 Y-O Gets Crushed To Death Inside Tyre While Hiding From Mother
Corporal punishment turned fatal for a minor girl in Odisha after she inadvertently walked into her death trap to save herself from another beating. The minor girl was crushed to death by an earth-moving machine while she was hiding inside a tyre. The gut wrenching incident was reported from Angutha village under Soro Police Limits of Balasore district on Friday (April 16).
Sources said that the child, identified as eight-year-old Asha Bindhani, was severely reprimanded and beaten by her mother at home over a trivial issue. Fearing further scolding, the scared child went into hiding inside a discarded tyre at a stone crusher unit adjacent to her house. But little did she know that death was waiting to pounce on her. An earthmoving machine operating at the crusher unit went over the tyre, crushing Asha to death on the spot.
With rising cases of corporal punishment at home and at schools, psychologists stated that parental negligence and harsh behaviour can cause detrimental damage to the impressionable minds of young children.