Chinese Boy Gets Implants After Eyes Gouged Out

A 6-year-old Chinese boy whose eyes were gouged out received implants Tuesday at a hospital in southern China by a Hong Kong doctor who offered the operation after learning about the brutal attack.

According to USA Today, the implants are a precursor to fitting the boy with prosthetic eyes that will look and move more like normal eyes but do not restore vision.

ABC News continued on to report that Doctors at the C-MER (Shenzhen) Dennis Lam Eye Hospital also plan to fit Guo Bin, nicknamed Bin Bin, with navigation sensors that would allow the boy to get around on his own in familiar places.

The Inquisitr previously reported on Guo Bin, the six-year-old boy who’s eyes were both gouged out by a woman in Linfen city in the Shanxi province of China.

The Inquisitr continued on to report that the prime suspect in the case was the boy’s aunt Zhang Huiying, 41, who reportedly committed suicide by jumping into a well right after the incident.

USA Today reports that while police still believe it was the aunt, the boy’s relatives have said they don’t believe she could have carried out the attack.

“Guo said the family does not think the police report is credible, because the aunt, who was working in a local factory on the day of the assault, would not have had time to commit the crime. News reports have suggested family disputes, but Guo said there had not been any.”

“As his parents, we are full of hope,” the boy’s father, Guo Zhiping, said over the phone while waiting for the surgery to finish. “We have yet to tell him that his vision would be lost forever.”

According to USA Today, Inggie Ho, an assistant to Dr. Dennis Lam Shun-Chiu, in whose hospital Bin-Bin received the treatment, said the surgery went well and he should be fitted with prosthetic eyes in four to six weeks.

Ho said Lam decided to treat the boy free of charge after learning about the horrific case involving the boy’s eyes being gouged out.

[Image via China View]