BEIJING: Chinese police have launched a hunt for a woman who gouged out the eyes of a six-year-old boy in Shanxi province. The woman and a man, who carried out the horrific surgery, are believed to be part of an organ trading racket.
"[He was] walking down the street, then someone just carried him away," the boy's father told the media. "This is what my son told me. We asked him on the way to hospital. He knew exactly what was happening. He said there was a person gouging his eyes with 'a thing', and he cried."
The kidnapping and surgery of Guo Bin happened within a span of five hours after he went missing from his home on Saturday evening. His parents were worried when he did not return home after playing outside. Guo was discovered five hours later with both eyes missing. His mother found the boy with his face covered with blood near their home. He told his mother he was forcibly taken away by a woman who spoke in a strange accent.
"The person then told him: 'Don't cry. If you stop crying I'll stop gouging your eyes,'" his father said at the Shanxi Eye Hospital where the boy is being treated.
The hospital director, Yang Caizhen, said Guo is recovering but his sight will never be recovered. "His eyeballs are gone, current medical technology has no means to help a patient whose eyeballs are gone by installing artificial eyes," she said. "There is no such technology in the world yet."
The media had initially said the culprits took away the cornea and left behind the rest of the eyes where they conducted the crude surgery.
The local government has announced a reward of 100,000 rmb ($16,400) for anyone who can give information about the whereabouts of the culprits.
A police officer named only as Liu refused to speculate on the motive of the attack. "We're sparing no efforts trying to solve this case," he said.
"[He was] walking down the street, then someone just carried him away," the boy's father told the media. "This is what my son told me. We asked him on the way to hospital. He knew exactly what was happening. He said there was a person gouging his eyes with 'a thing', and he cried."
The kidnapping and surgery of Guo Bin happened within a span of five hours after he went missing from his home on Saturday evening. His parents were worried when he did not return home after playing outside. Guo was discovered five hours later with both eyes missing. His mother found the boy with his face covered with blood near their home. He told his mother he was forcibly taken away by a woman who spoke in a strange accent.
"The person then told him: 'Don't cry. If you stop crying I'll stop gouging your eyes,'" his father said at the Shanxi Eye Hospital where the boy is being treated.
The hospital director, Yang Caizhen, said Guo is recovering but his sight will never be recovered. "His eyeballs are gone, current medical technology has no means to help a patient whose eyeballs are gone by installing artificial eyes," she said. "There is no such technology in the world yet."
The media had initially said the culprits took away the cornea and left behind the rest of the eyes where they conducted the crude surgery.
The local government has announced a reward of 100,000 rmb ($16,400) for anyone who can give information about the whereabouts of the culprits.
A police officer named only as Liu refused to speculate on the motive of the attack. "We're sparing no efforts trying to solve this case," he said.
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