With her rare mental disorder, a six-year and two-month-old girl has been leading her life in a bamboo cage for years at Sadipur (Salimpara) village in Sadar upazila.

Noor-e-Jannat is a daughter of Siddiq Ali of the area.

She needs immediate treatment to treat her disease, but, it is tough for her day labourer father to bear the expensive treatment.

They last took Jannath to doctors in 2015, said the father.

“We could not treat her properly due to our poverty”, said mother Fensi Ara.

Fensi said she noticed abnormal behaviour of her daughter a year after her birth.

Jannath hurts herself with whatever she gets in front of her, said the tearful mother.

Later, they took her to doctors at different hospitals in Dinajpur including M Abdur Rahim Medical College Hospital, but there was no improvement. She needs better treatment in Dhaka but they are yet to arrange the required money for this, said her parents.

During a visit to the girl's home on Friday, this correspondent found the girl tied up with a strong rope inside the cage so she cannot come out from it.

Her daughter's entire body is filled with bruises. The bruises were made by her, said the mother.

On a request, the parents freed the girl from the cage for a while. The girl wanted to play with other children of neighbours, but the children are scared of due to her abnormal behaviour. At that time, the girl attempted several times to injure herself. 

She does not hurt others, said the mother.

“As a mother, it's an unbearable pain to me to see my only daughter in such way. I want to treat my daughter at better hospital if the solvent persons in the country come forward”, said Fensi.

 Every night Jannath needs to have a sleeping pill for a sound sleep, said the mother.

Neighbour Nazmoon Nahar believes that the girl can return to normal life if she is treated at better hospital in Dhaka. She urged the rich people to help the family.