CWC takes custody of four siblings after Kerala mother expresses inability to look after them

The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) took custody of four siblings here on Monday after their mother wrote to it expressing her inability to take care of them due to poverty, officials said.

The woman had written a letter to the CWC, saying her husband was an alcoholic and they were not able to feed their kids. She also said one of them had once eaten mud due to hunger.

After receiving the letter, CWC members visited the makeshift house of the family in the evening and took custody of four of her six children.

Mayor K Sreekumar had earlier visited their house and told reporters, "The mother will be given a temporary job in the city corporation. One of the apartments, which have been constructed for the homeless under the Life Mission, will be given to the family."