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If the children refused to accompany Vishnu to his room, they used to be beaten up, the report stated.Further, employees at Sisubhavan used to beat children and those employees who used to treat them kindly were ousted. The affidavit said a detailed probe is required into the illegal activities at the institution. Children, including older ones, were forced to bathe nude in the open and were beaten up if they refused, the report said.The institution's director Jos Maveli used to meet the children sometimes and used to inquire about their welfare but the kids had not revealed the ill-treatment to him as they were afraid of getting beaten up by the staff. KOCHI: Children at the Janaseva Sisubhavan in Aluva were subjected to sexual offences and ill-treated if they opposed, says a report submitted to the high court by the state government.Social justice department has produced a report filed by district child protection officer of Manjeri narrating the violation of child rights at Janaseva Sisubhavan before the high court.The report said an employee at Sisubhavan named Vishnu used to take children to his room at night and show them pornographic video clips on his phone.The children were told to do as seen in the videos by the employee. When they told Maveli about the ill-treatment once, they were badly beaten up by the employees later on, as per the report.Statements of the children were recorded by producing them before a magistrate and an FIR has been registered at Kuttipuram police station for the violation of child rights, the report said, while noting that statements recorded by police does not contain information about the offence of unnatural sex committed on the children.A counter affidavit was also filed by Biju Prabhakar, secretary of department of social justice, in response to a petition filed by Maveli challenging government's decision to temporarily take over the Sisubhavan..