Calls for minister to resign over missing 14-year-old boy
Shidhatha Shareef released sensitive information about the minor.
01 Jul 2019, 9:00 AM
Maya Mauroof
Gender Minister Shidhatha Shareef is facing increasing public censure over the way she has personally handled the case of a missing 14-year-old boy who ran away from state care 13 days ago and has yet to be found.
Parliament’s Human Rights and Gender Committee decided unanimously to summon Shidhatha over the disappearance of Shaim Abdulla from Kudakudhinge Hiyaa orphanage in Villimalé. She was questioned by the committee in a closed session on Saturday night.
The committee said they had decided to hold a closed session to ensure that the rights of the child in question were not compromised.
At a press conference on Wednesday, Shidhatha disclosed the minor’s entire case history in an apparent attempt to justify how a case of child neglect first reported in 2009 had evolved into the child’s later disappearance from state care.
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