CHINESE BOYS’ EYE GOUGED OUT AFTER BEING KIDNAPPED

Parents’ horror as Chinese boy, 6 has his eyes gouged out after being ‘kidnapped by organ trafficker who stole both his corneas’. A six year old Chinese boy had his eyes gouged out after reportedly being kidnapped by an organ trafficker. Family members found the youngster covered in blood some three to four hours after he went missing while playing outside his home.

The child’s eyes were found nearby but the corneas were missing, reports said, implying that an organ trafficker was behind the harrowing attack.

Police offered a 100,000 yuan ($16,000) reward for information leading to the arrest of he 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.

However, once the boy was rushed to hospital doctors discovered that his eyes had been removed.

The illicit organ trade in China has been triggered by the disparity between the 300,000 people on hospital transplant waiting lists and the fact that only 10,000 organ transplant operations are performed each year.