Man uses rubber band to stop bedwetting, harms son's genitals

To tackle his four-and-a-half-year-old son’s bedwetting, a farmer of Periyapatna had been tying his son’s genital with a rubber band every night.

MYSURU: To tackle his four-and-a-half-year-old son’s bedwetting, a farmer of Periyapatna had been tying his son’s genital with a rubber band every night. The matter came to light on Wednesday.
On August 9, Santhwana Women’s Helpline (SWH) of the Department of Women and Child Development received a complaint about Nagaraj (name changed) ill-treating his son.

Shwetha, an SWH counselor went to the anganwadi where Mahesh (name changed) is enrolled.
She was shocked when she found Mahesh’s genital swollen and wounded. Shwetha told Express that since the child’s genital was tied with a rubberband, his hands and stomach were also swollen. The child was later admitted to a Government Hospital at Periyapatna.“Even after treatment, he couldn’t urinate for a day. We were scared. So we shifted him to a hospital in Mysuru,” she said.

Shweta said Nagaraj’s wife had passed away a couple of years ago. He also has a daughter who is studying in Class IV. Nagaraj disliked Mahesh as he suspected that he was born out of his wife’s illicit relationship. But he took care of his daughter well, she said.Periyapatna police said the local child development project officer (CDPO) lodged an oral complaint against Nagaraj on August 9. Nagaraj will be arrested once they get a written complaint, they said.

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