Its taken almost a year for letters and written complaints to move from one department to the other and the case appears to have been lost like Alice in Wonderland, says Naresh Paras, in inquiry committee reports and recommendations of various teams. "But the guilty have remained undeterred and free so far. The height is that small girls were molested in the Children's Protection Home by a fourth class employee and despite proof he was merely transferred," Naresh told Agratoday.in.

 Between 2004 and 2006, six children were officially handed over to couples after adoption formalities. But records at the Protection Home have no addresses or whereabouts of the people who adopted Chandan 2 years, Jyoti 5 years, Devendra 2 years, Vivek 6 years, Pappu 8 years. "Nobody knows where they are and with whom." Luv Verma, member secretary of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights brought the issue of misssing children to the notice of Agra district magistrate MK Narayan December last, but the DM has not followed up. One child Gaurav was handed over for adoption to a family which had no address last July.

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights sent its team to investigate and found the "allegations of nine children missing from Bal Grah to be true. The list of children given in adoption only five children were found legally given in adoption. In the same list another four children were not legally handed over for adoption. Follow up record on adopted children was not found."

 Even as the issue of missing children was being investigated, a fresh controversy relating to molestation charges by Laxmi, Shailey and Khushboo, all under ten years of age, against an attendant Kaushal rocked the Protection Home.

An FIR was registered on September 19, 2009 full 21 days after the reported act of molestation. The accused was arrested and later let off on bail. He has now been transferred.

In a statement to the city magistrate Shatrughan Singh on September 22, the victims said "Kaushal had molested them in the night. Laxmi said he was lying close to her, Shelly said he was lifting her frock. Kaushal sir would ask us to press his legs and feet in the night, those who refused were beaten up." According to the city magistrate "nothing wrong was done, he used to sleep along with them and remove their clothes."

Renu Bala, the superintendent in her statement said "Shelly told me in the morning that Kaushal caressed her body and put his hand inside her underwear." After Kaushal was transferred Hari Babu joined. According to the staff "he drinks too much."

After the complaints and involvement of social activists in the controversy several inquiry committees visited the Home and found the allegations true. But even after such a long period, nothing concrete has been achieved and life goes on "in that dirty murky joint threatening the future of the little inmates," says Naresh Paras.