Child Begging

Was returning from work yesterday when my car came to a halt at a traffic signal…. Was engrossed in a nice song when suddenly someone knocked at the window.. a girl probably of age around 10 yrs with a smaller kid of around 1 – 1 ½ yr in her arms stood there… she started asking for money saying she was hungry and so on… I never give money to such people who come with babies in their arms bcause I feel that this encourages them more to trouble the small kid into crying so as to gain our sympathies… I asked her to go away… but that got me into thinking… the signal turned green and I moved on, but I tried to think as to how can this ever be stopped… last week it was in papers that some kid was kidnapped and asked to beg near Bombay hospital… there had to be some way to stop this… even if the men who force these kids into begging are arrested they come out again and start same thing all over… I then realized that there was one harsh way to end this… make child begging a crime…!!! I know this may sound weird… or such law may be into existence already of which I am unaware of… but after making such a law start arresting such kids and start putting them into remand / correctional homes… this is really harsh on them but to achieve something big this can be undertaken…. Once everyone comes to know that begging by children is a crime and can attract punishment then no one would then force or even ask these kids to beg… children wont be kidnapped for this purpose …over a period we may find no children begging anywhere… matter to think over?????????