An investigation into the Daya Dan home for learning disabled chldren in Calcutta, run by the Missionary of Charity Sisters, Mother Tereesa's order shows children tethered by the ankles in their cots. Former Operation's director of Mencap, Martin Gallagher, said that it shoddy and degrading. "As far as I am concerned it is a breech of their human rights".

The report for Five news and Sky, also found poor hygeine, haphazzard care and insensitive treatment.

Donal Writes:

I went undercover in the homes because I was contacted by very experienced aid workers who were horrified by what they saw in the Missionary of Charity Homes in Calcutta. They wrote of their concerns to the order but received no response. When I visited the home - it appeared that nothing had changed since they had worked there six months earlier. Indeed, the same criticisms, more or less, had been made of the homes for the last 11 years.

There are simply no circumstances in my mind why any learning disabled child should be tethered to a cot.