ROUTINE AUTOPSY REVEALS HAVOC OF CHRONIC SODOMY IN A GURUKUL INMATE.

Sound and healthy childhood is the requirement for a fruitful adulthood. If the experiences of a child with the society as a whole have been uneventful, the psychology doesn?t get distorted later on. The trauma of any sort suffered in the tender years, when the brain is highly susceptible to outside stimulus tends to get registered deeper. An old proverb states that child is the father of man. A lot of the experiences that a child is going to get are primarily filtered through the sieve of the family. We report a case of a 13 year old illiterate male boy from lowest sociofinancial stratum, left in a Gurukul in central Haryana by his drug addict father. While doing routine field work, he accidently got pressed between a bullock cart and a wall and expired shortly thereafter. The doctors at District Hospital referred the case to our institute as they didn?t find any external signs of injury but suspected chronic sodomy instead. Through this paper, we will discuss the case in detail and emphasize the need of proper history taking and meticulous autopsy. We will also address the issue of identifying the vulnerable group at the earliest and measures to be taken for such victims.