It showed the children in a garbage yard at Peravoor in Kannur, seemingly foraging for food. We would not send our children to the garbage yard and allow them to eat from the refuse. The newspapers have wrongly claimed that when then fathers go to work, we mothers take the children to the garbage yard,” she says. The nearly three-minute video initially has the boy describing the alleged sequence of events before his mother joins in the conversation. The photograph appeared in the local daily Mathrubhumi on November 4, 2015, and was subsequently picked up by local newspapers and TV channels.

Source: Indian Express May 12, 2016 17:45 UTC