Baby Ritual Labelled Barbaric

The Australian
April 9, 2012

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TERRIFIED babies screamed in shock as they were thrown 9m from a temple balcony amid a crowd of dancing worshippers in the southern Indian state last week.

The temple's baby-throwing ritual, an annual event in which infants under two are dropped by a priest and caught in a blanket, has been denounced as "barbaric" by children's rights groups, which have demanded an end to it.