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Family of "Baby-81" say life difficult after US visit

(12 Dec 2005) Cheddipalayam - 24 November 2005 1. Abilass or "Baby 81" playing with soft toy 2. Abilass' father Jeyarajah showing newspaper clippings and identity card 3. Close up of Abilass' identity card from the hospital FILE: Kalumunai - 2 February, 2005 4. Various of "Baby 81" sleeping in hospital 5. Mother of "Baby 81", Jenita, picking him up from cot surrounded by hospital staff and media 6. Jenita handing over baby to nurse 7. Nurse holding "Baby 81" Cheddipalayam - 24 November 2005 8. SOUNDBITE (Tamil): Murugupillai Jeyarajah, father of Abilass ("Baby 81"): "He feels scared at night. He starts crying when he hears any sound. We need help to take him to a doctor." 9. Abilass' grandmother giving him a bath 10. Close up of baby's pendant with his name 11. Various of Abilass bathing 12. Jeyarajah and Abilass walking into hair salon where Jeyarajah works 13. Close up of Abilass' first birthday card 14. Wide of Abilass in salon as his father cuts client's hair 15. SOUNDBITE (Tamil): Murugupillai Jeyarajah, father of Abilass ("Baby 81"): "Ever since we have come back from America, people think we have become rich. If I had (become rich) why would I be running a hair salon? What they think is wrong. We don't have even a single dollar." Cheddipalayam - 25 November 2005 16. Jeyarajah and Abilass outside temple 17. Deity in temple 18. Jeyarajah holding Abilass during prayer session 19. Priest 20. Jeyarajah putting hand over the flame used for offering prayer in front of deity and touching Abilass's face in a traditional way of blessing 21. Woman praying at temple 22. Abilass playing with other children Cheddipalayam - 24 November 2005 23. Abilass with his mother 24. SOUNDBITE (Tamil): Jenita Jeyarajah, mother of Abilass ("Baby 81"): "We want him to study abroad or even in Sri Lanka. He should study and become a big man. I do not know what he will become in future, only that he should be successful in life - that is our wish." Cheddipalayam - 25 November 2005 25. Abilass with parents STORYLINE: The Asian tsunami's most miraculous and celebrated survivor, "Baby-81" now moans in his sleep. Barking of stray dogs, even thumping of feet, or noise from passing motorcycles in this remote eastern Sri Lankan hamlet, makes him get up and cry. Government physicians attached with the hospital where he was born on Oct. 19, 2004, and kept for seven weeks after the Dec. 26 tsunami waves separated him from his parents, refuses to see him, possibly angry over his parents' agonsing tussle against hospital authorities in having the child back. "He feels scared at night. He starts crying when he hears any sound. We need help to take him to a doctor," said Murugupillai Jeyarajah, father of Abilass - the name rooted in the Sanskrit word "abhilasha," meaning aspiration or desire. Jeyarajah was beaten up by some men one night when he stayed in his sister's house in Kalmunai after returning from the U.S., because the attackers thought he had got lots of money. They wanted a share. "Ever since we have come back from America, people think we have become rich. "If I had (become rich) why would I be running a hair salon? What they think is wrong. We don't have even a single dollar," said Jeyarajah, sitting in his new rented home, 25 kilometres away from the town of Kalmunai, where he lived, where his baby got separated and where the assault took place. He went to police and lodged a complaint over the assault and inaccurate rumours that millions of rupees (thousands of U.S. dollars or euros) had been donated for Abilass. The police did nothing. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...