Hunt for woman who gouged out boy’s eyes
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A REWARD has been offered for information leading to the capture of a woman who gouged out a six-year-old boy’s eyes and took the cornea.
Police in Fenxi County in north China’s Shanxi Province have put up 100,000 yuan (US$16,330) for help in tracking down the attacker, who left the child unconscious in a field.
The boy’s eyes were found nearby but the corneas were missing, China National Radio reported, implying that an organ trafficker was behind the attack.
Web users have speculated that the woman might be a surgeon engaged in illegal cornea trafficking.
The boy, identified only as Binbin, is out of danger after undergoing an operation in the provincial capital Taiyuan.
The woman abducted the little boy at around 7:20pm on Saturday from the yard of his rural home, police said.
Binbin’s parents said he was found by a villager in a nearby field around three hours later, unconscious and with blood covering his face.
“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.
Binbin said a woman, who didn’t have a local accent, held him and dug his eyes out with a tool. He said she told him: “Don’t cry. If you stop crying, I won’t scoop your eyes out.”
The boy had been playing alone, but couldn’t be found at around 8pm when called for his dinner, his mother said.
The child appeared to have been drugged but regained consciousness en route to hospital and began screaming.
Shocked relatives could think of no motive for the horrific attack, saying his parents, who are farmers, believed they hadn’t offended anyone.
Internet users expressed their outrage.
“This is extraordinarily vicious,” said one Sina Weibo user. “How and why could someone be so cruel?”
“A truly tragic boy,” said another online poster.
Ministry of Health statistics show that about 1.5 million people in China need transplants, but only 10,000 operations are performed each year.
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.”
Seven people were jailed last November when a teenager sold a kidney for an illicit transplant operation and used the proceeds to buy an iPhone and iPad.
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