An IT professional from Chennai has died by suicide less than a month after she was shamed over “negligence”, when her eight-month-old child accidentally slipped from her hands and fell from the balcony of their flat on the fourth floor in an apartment complex.
According to a report published by The New Indian Express, the woman was identified as Ramya V and was found dead at her parents’ home in Coimbatore’s Karamadai. Sources told the newspaper that she had been unable to overcome the incident with the child, who was rescued by fellow residents without being harmed on April 28.
But, Ramya was subjected to extreme humiliation to an extent that the media even said she had let go of the child on purpose, sources said. Her husband Venkatesh is also an IT professional, and the couple was working in Chennai.
The police said she and her husband, along with their child, had come to Karamadai two weeks ago. On Sunday (May 19), her parents left to attend a function while she was alone at home. When they returned, they found her lying unconscious and rushed her to the hospital where she was declared dead.
Sources further said Ramya had been depressed since the accident involving her child and was shamed not only by local residents but also news channels, as well as people online after the video of the incident went viral. She was blamed for her “carelessness” and “failure as a mother” by residents of the apartment complex, who gave bytes to the media.
The police have registered a case, and are further probing the incident.
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