Ranchi baby-selling scandal: Video shows Mission of Charity nun confessing to selling newly-born babies for money
The Missionaries of Charity was founded by Mother Teresa on October 7, 1950, in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India. Mother Teresa, who’s real name was Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (also commonly transliterated as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu).
B: August 26, 1910 – D: September 5, 1997. – 1979 Nobel Peace Prize recipient. – 2016, Mother Teresa was declared a saint by Pope Francis during a canonization Mass at the Vatican.
July 2018 (20 years after the death of Mother Teresa) – A sensational video has emerged that shows a nun and an employee of a Ranchi-based shelter house, Nirmal Hriday, run by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity (MoC), confessing on camera that they illegally sold newly-born babies in lieu of money.
(Translation by TurboScrib.ai~ not perfect but, understandable.)
In the video, Sister Konsalia and employee Anima Indwar are seen as confessing that they sold three children for money and gave away the fourth child for free.
The deal, according to Anima, was sealed for Rs 1.2 lakh (about $1,740–$1,760 USD at the time).
The details of the entire deal is yet to come out but the veil has been lifted from this racket.
The video reveals that a nun, an employee and a guard of Nirmal Hridaya were involved in this racket.
Out of the four children, three were sold in Jharkhand while the fourth was sold in Uttar Pradesh.
Out of the four children, three were sold in Jharkhand while the fourth was sold in Uttar Pradesh.
The racket was exposed after a couple lodged a complaint with police after they were approached by the members of this racket for purchasing a baby.
Police investigation revealed that four children were missing from the shelter house out of which three have been recovered.
Senior Superintendent of Police (Ranchi) Anis Gupta said that Sister Konsalia, during interrogation, “confessed” that she had sold the three children to three people.
He, however, did not say how much money was taken for the alleged sale.
The SSP said the children who had been sold were rescued by the police and a search was on the fourth child who was given away.
Sister Konsalia and Anima Indwar, an employee of the Nirmal Hriday, were arrested in connection with the sale of the babies.
On Friday, they were sent to four-day police remand by the chief judicial magistrate court for interrogation.
The MoC sister was arrested on July 5 for allegedly selling a child born to a minor inmate of the home to a couple from Uttar Pradesh.
Anima Indwar was arrested on July 4.
Employee of Ranchi orphanage run by Missionaries of Charity arrested for ‘selling’ baby
Anima Indwar of Nirmal Hriday was apprehended based on a complaint filed by Rupa Verma, chairperson of Child Welfare Committee’s Ranchi unit.
Updated – July 06, 2018 12:16 pm IST – Patna / Amarnath Tewary
Two women associated with Missionaries of Charity in Ranchi were arrested on Thursday after being accused of selling babies.
On Friday, Missionaries of Charity, in press release, said, “we’re completely shocked by what has happened in our home in Ranchi. It should never have happened. It is completely against our moral conviction. We are carefully looking into this matter. We will take all the necessary precautions that this kind of incident will never happen again”.
The organisation was founded, by Mother Teresa, a Nobel Peace prize winner (1979) and a Catholic saint in India, in 1950.
Sister Koncilia, a nun at Missionaries of Charity run in Ranchi by the name of Nirmal Hriday, was arrested on Thursday while a staff Anima Indwar was arrested earlier on Wednesday.
Nirmal Hriday is a shelter for unwed mothers.
Investigation ongoing
“Two arrests have been made in the case…investigation is going on as we’ve also got certain leads about other children being sold by them to different couples…we’re verifying the addresses”, Ranchi Senior Superintendent of Police Anis Gupta said.
The arrests of two women were prompted by a complaint filed by state run Child Welfare Committee (CWC) at Kotwali police station in Ranchi.
“An FIR has been lodged under Section 370 of the IPC”, said Kotwali Officer-in-Charge Shyamanand Mandal. Section 370 pertains to trafficking of persons.
The Committee said that a couple from neighboring State Uttar Pradesh had paid ₹1,20,000 (about $1,740–$1,760 USD at the time) for a 14-day old boy born to a young woman at a Missionaries of Charity shelter.
The couple was allegedly told that the money was for hospital expenses.
Anima Indwar, said the complaint filed by CWC, sold the baby to the UP couple on May 14.
“CWC should have been informed by the Missionaries of Charity when the pregnant woman was taken to hospital …the committee has come to know that other babies too were sold to different people in different cities”, CWC chairperson Rupa Verma told The Hindu over phone.
Operation shutdown in 2015
Earlier, Missionaries spokesperson in Ranchi Sunita Kumar had said there was no question of selling any child as the Missionaries of Charity had stopped giving children for adoption three years ago.
The Missionaries of Charity opted to shut down its adoption services in India in 2015 after objecting to the Indian government’s decision to allow single or divorced parents to adopt children, she said.
The CWC officials said that twelve pregnant women who were living at the Missionaries of Charity shelter home too have been transferred to a government-run shelter Karuna Shelter Home.
“The Committee will also be shifting around 70 children who have been given shelter in Nirmal Shishu Bhawan, another branch of the organization, to other homes”, said CWC member Tanushree Sarkar told The Hindu.
Chronological list of notable donors, awards, and financial sources received by the Missionaries of Charity (or Mother Teresa personally for the order) during her lifetime (1950–1997).
All amounts are approximate (in USD at the time) based on historical reports, award records, and biographical sources.
- 1962: Ramon Magsaysay Award (for community leadership) – Prize money ≈ $7,500 (donated to her mission).
- 1962: Padma Shri (India’s fourth-highest civilian award) – Cash grant included (amount not publicly specified; donated to charity).
- 1971: Pope John XXIII Peace Prize – Cash award (amount not publicly detailed; donated directly to the poor).
- 1972: Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding (India) – Prize money ≈ $13,000 (donated).
- 1973: Templeton Prize (for progress in religion) – Prize money ≈ $85,000 (donated).
- 1975: Albert Schweitzer International Prize – Cash prize (amount not publicly specified; donated).
- 1978: Balzan Prize (for humanity, peace, and brotherhood) – Prize money ≈ $200,000 (donated).
- 1979: Nobel Peace Prize – Prize money ≈ $192,000 (at the time; Mother Teresa requested the entire amount be given to the poor in India).
- 1980: Bharat Ratna (India’s highest civilian award) – Cash grant included (amount not publicly specified; used for charity).
- 1983: Order of Merit (United Kingdom) – Honorary; no cash prize.
- 1985: Presidential Medal of Freedom (United States) – Awarded by President Ronald Reagan; honorary civilian award with no direct cash prize (medal and recognition only).
- 1980s: Charles Keating (U.S. financier, later convicted in Savings & Loan scandal) – Donated approximately $1.25 million through his company (reported in multiple investigations; Mother Teresa wrote a letter to a judge in 1988 asking for leniency; the donation was later returned after his conviction).
- 1980s: Robert Maxwell (British media mogul, father of Ghislaine Maxwell) – Substantial donations, reported in the range of $100,000 to $1 million (exact figures vary by source; some reports cite six-figure sums; he was a high-profile donor during the 1980s when his empire was expanding).
- 1980s: Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier (Haitian dictator) – Large donations accepted and publicly acknowledged by Mother Teresa (amounts not precisely quantified in public records, but described as significant in biographies and critiques).
- Ongoing 1960s–1990s: Co-Workers of Mother Teresa (international lay volunteer network) – Raised funds locally; by the 1990s, over 1 million members in 40+ countries contributed regularly (no single large sums documented; cumulative small donations).
- Ongoing: Thousands of anonymous individual donations worldwide (no public list; the order relied on free-will offerings and begging for daily needs).
Search any of these to learn more about them.
Origins and Timeline of the “Child Trafficker” Claim Regarding Mother Teresa:
- Pre-2018 (no credible evidence during her life): No primary sources, official reports, police records, or investigations from 1950–1997 accuse Mother Teresa or the Missionaries of Charity of child trafficking, baby-selling, or related crimes.
Her critics focused on other issues:- Poor medical conditions in hospices (e.g., reuse of needles, lack of pain relief, glorification of suffering).
- Alleged forced conversions (e.g., deathbed baptisms).
- Acceptance of donations from controversial figures (e.g., Charles Keating, Baby Doc Duvalier, Robert Maxwell).
- Financial opacity (large donations not fully accounted for in direct aid).
- These critiques come from:
- Christopher Hitchens video (“The Missionary Position,” 1995; “Hell’s Angel” documentary, 1994).
- Aroup Chatterjee book (“Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict,” 2003; physician who worked briefly in Calcutta and documented conditions).
- Neither Hitchens nor Chatterjee (the two most prominent early critics) ever accused her of child trafficking or baby-selling. Their focus was on suffering, conversion, and money handling.
Hell’s Angel – Mother Teresa (1994) Documentary by Christopher Hitchens:
Mother Teresa charity defends tying children to beds
August 2, 2005
A charity founded by Mother Teresa has said disabled children at one of its homes in India were restrained for their safety, after a British television reporter filmed children tied to their beds.
Britain’s Five News, in a program to be broadcast tomorrow, said it had uncovered “serious shortcomings” at a care centre run by the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta.
It secretly filmed many of the 59 children — aged six months to 12 years — living at the Daya Dan shelter tied by their ankles to their cots at night, restrained while being fed and left for up to 20 minutes on the toilet by their carers.
In a statement, Five News said it began investigating the home after hearing complaints from international aid workers.
The global order of nuns said today its charitable homes tied children only when absolutely necessary.
“Physical restraints are used only when absolutely necessary for the safety of the child … for limited periods of time,” a Missionaries of Charity statement faxed to Reuters said.
“We value constructive criticism and admit that there is always room for improvement.”
A spokeswoman for the order, Sister Christie, told Reuters by phone from Calcutta: “It (the tying) happens only when we see the child could be hurt. It’s about their safety.
“The children are sometimes tied because they keep waving their hands and moving when being fed. Also they could fall off (the cots) while sleeping at night.”
Five News reporter Donal MacIntyre said: “I was truly shocked by what I found at the Daya Dan centre. There are strategies for looking after disabled children that minimise stressful situations, and, as a result of poor training and lack of resources, staff are resorting to inhumane practises such as tying children up.”
Five News said: “The shocking footage reveals that despite receiving millions of pounds in donations every year, there is little evidence of its investment at the centres Donal visited.”
Daya Dan was set up in 1998, a year after the death of Mother Teresa, who adopted Calcutta as the centre of her global charitable order that now runs more than 750 centres across the world.
The Missionaries of Charity, famous for working among the sick, destitute and dying, said it was committed to serving the ideals of Mother Teresa and improving the quality of care in Daya Dan.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa, who founded the order in 1950 in Calcutta, died in 1997 at the age of 87.
– Reuters
Shared from https://www.theage.com.au/world/mother-teresa-charity-defends-tying-children-to-beds-20050802-ge0m5t.html
READ: Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict ~ Author: Aroup Chatterjee
Aroup Chatterjee, a physician born and raised in the bustling streets of Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, offers a rare insider’s lens on the global myth surrounding Mother Teresa, drawing from his lifelong immersion in the city she made famous. Having relocated to Britain in 1985, Chatterjee was profoundly struck by the Western stereotype of Calcutta as a symbol of unrelenting misery—a distorted image he attributes to her legacy—and resolved to challenge it through years of rigorous research, culminating in his 2003 book Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict, updated as Mother Teresa: The Untold Story in 2016. Inspired by personal encounters with the city’s realities and even his Irish Catholic wife’s sense of betrayal upon witnessing the disconnect between legend and truth, Chatterjee’s work, penned between 1996 and 2002, dismantles the saintly facade with on-the-ground accounts, exposing discrepancies in charitable practices, media manipulation, and the true impact on the poor.
Mother Teresa: The Untold Story in 2016 – BOOK (update to the book: Mother Teresa, The Final Verdict:
Mother Teresa: The Untold Story in 2016
Watch the Author’s 2021 interview of why he wrote Mother Teresa, The Final Verdict & The Untold Story. (upload in progress)
More information https://swarajyamag.com/books/the-truth-about-mother-teresa-review-of-aroup-chatterjees-mother-teresa-the-untold-story
Documentary – David Icke – Revelations Of A Mother Goddess (1999)- Debunked: Mother Teresa is NOT Mentioned in this Documentary
Many on-line influencers have stated that Mother Teresa is talked about in this documentary. That is not true. This documentary contains very interesting content, it is well worth watching.
The 1999 documentary “Revelations of a Mother Goddess” by David Icke features a lengthy interview with Arizona Wilder, a woman who presents herself as a survivor of trauma-based mind control programming and ritualistic abuse within elite networks. Wilder describes alleged experiences involving high-profile figures from politics, royalty, and entertainment participating in satanic ceremonies, including human sacrifices, blood rituals, and shape-shifting phenomena tied to ancient reptilian bloodlines. She claims her role involved conducting these events and provides details on locations like castles in Belgium and the UK, as well as connections to Nazi scientists and intelligence agencies. The film positions these accounts as exposing a hidden global hierarchy controlling humanity.
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