Venkatesh ran away from home when he was six years old. His alcoholic father would beat him a lot and force him to make money by working in a cotton factory. He ended up in the Pune train station where he began to beg and polish shoes to survive. Throughout the next four years he was sexually abused every day by older street boys. They also robbed him of the money he earned so that he never had enough food. Read More...
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