CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Dhanalakshmi was 14 and pregnant when she was rescued from a children's home in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
She had been entrusted in the care of the unregistered institution by her mother, a ragpicker who could no longer afford another mouth to feed.
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