Boy blinded as eyes stolen by a ruthless organ trafficker
August 28, 2013 Leave a comment
Boy blinded as eyes stolen
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
A six-year-old boy had his eyes gouged out, blinding him for life, in a gruesome attack that may have been carried out by a ruthless organ trafficker. Family members found the boy covered in blood some three to four hours after he went missing while playing outside. The child’s eyes were found nearby but the corneas were missing, reports said, implying that an organ trafficker was behind the harrowing attack in Shanxi province.Police offered a 100,000 yuan (HK$127,630) reward for information leading to the arrest of the sole suspect, who they said was a woman.
“He had blood all over his face. His eyelids were turned inside out. And inside, his eyeballs were not there,” his father told Shanxi Television.
Its report showed the heavily bandaged boy being taken from an operating theater and placed in a hospital bed, writhing in agony as family members stood at his bedside weeping.
The boy was drugged and “lost consciousness” before the attacker removed his eyes on Monday, China Central Television said.
Internet users were outraged by the attack on the boy – who has a cleft palate – in Fenxi.
“This is extraordinarily vicious,” said one Sina Weibo user. “How and why could someone be so cruel?”
Another poster said: “A truly tragic boy.”
Child organs are usually more expensive on the black market, an organ trafficker told Sina internet news portal in 2010, as “people think the younger the donor is, the better the quality of organs.”
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