Touching story of a boy returned home Youth lost … and found [Archives:2002/22/Reportage]
May 27 2002
NASSRI AL-SAQQAF
YEMEN TIMES STAFF
The misery of this young man started, according to the director general of Adens Care House, when the police found the boy wandering in Aden streets. Being blind and dumb, the police couldnt identify who or where from he is. So, the police took him later to the delinquents Care House. The house, on its part, tried to contact his family through running his photo at the local newspapers, but no body was responding.
The house made it its own responsibility to embrace the boy and provide him with all material and emotional support.
Then the State Minster of Human Rights, Dr. Waheeba Fari visited him May 11, along with some prisons and delinquency homes in Aden, Lahaj and Aden with a view to inspect the situation of these facilities.
On her visit to Adens Delinquencies Home, she was attracted to an innocent young boy. And she promised to follow his case.
Upon her return to Sanaa, the state minister took the boy from Adens Procedural Court to search for his family. She also ran his photo in several newspapers again.
On May 19, the Human Rights Ministry got a call from a person named Nabeel who informed the ministry that he knew Abdu.
Nabeel came accompanied by Hazaa, a cousin of Abdu, to the ministry to take the boy. There was an emotional meeting for all present.
The state minster checked the truth of the relation between the boy and the person who came to take him, as well as the reasons for his fleeing home.
Abdu was given back to his family with the presence of an officer of the criminal police, the office director of deputy minister of interior, and Abdulbasit As-Samawi, an MP for constituency No.231 to which the boy belongs.
Still one has to question why it the minister, not the Aden police who found the boy and connected him with his family. Isnt it a police responsibility?
——
[archive-e:22-v:2002-y:2002-d:2002-05-27-p:./2002/iss22/report.htm]
