A KIDNAPPER allegedly told a
six-year-old boy in China, ''Dont cry. Dont cry and I wont gouge out
your eyes'' before carrying out the gruesome act.
The 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, reports say.
Family members found the boy covered in
blood some three to four hours after he went missing while playing
outside, according to a television report posted online on Tuesday.
The
child's eyes were found nearby but the corneas were missing, reports
said, implying that an organ trafficker was behind the harrowing attack.
The kidnapper apparently told the boy: ''Don’t cry. Don’t cry and I won’t gouge out your eyes,'' the
Daily Mail UK reports.
The boy’s father said: ''We didn't notice his eyes were gone when we discovered him.
''We thought he fell down from high and smashed his face.''
However, once the boy was rushed to hospital doctors discovered that his eyes had been removed.
Police
offered a 100,000 yuan ($17,818) 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
theatre 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, state
broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) said on its account on Sina
Weibo, China's version of Twitter.
Internet users were outraged by
the attack on the boy - who had a cleft palate - in Fenxi, in the
northern province of Shanxi on Monday.
"This is extraordinarily vicious," said one Sina Weibo user. "How and why could someone be so cruel?"
"A truly tragic boy," said another poster.
About
300,000 patients in China need transplants each year, but only about
10,000 people can get them because of a lack of donors, state media
said.
Seven people were jailed last year when a teenager sold a
kidney for an illicit transplant operation and used the proceeds to buy
an iPhone and iPad.
Child organs are usually more expensive on the
black market, an organ trafficker told Sina internet news portal in
2010, as "most people think the younger the donor is, the better the
quality of organs".
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