(Photo : The boy is with his mother in the Hospital)

A six-year old boy from Fenxi, in the northern province of Shanxi, China was playing outside their home, when he disappeared for about three to four hours. His worried family found him drenched in his own blood with his eyes nowhere to be found later on, said the boy's father in Shanxi Television.

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After a savaged attack in which the perpetrator chiseled his eyes out, the boy has been left blinded for all of his life.

According to reports, they boy's eyes were discovered in close proximity. This suggests that the perpetrator may have been a trafficker of the organ trade and is apparently intend to sell the boy's cornea on the black market.

A broadcaster in China Central Television stated on its account on Weibo, a Chinese Social Networking Site that the child was drugged and lost consciousness before the perpetrator performed the vicious acquisition.

Images of the boy being transported from an operating room to a hospital bed, with his eyes bandaged and clearly in great pain and his family flustered from watching were shown in the television.

"He asks why the sky is always dark... and why the dawn still hasn't come" "We could only tell him that his eyes had some injury and have to be bandaged."It is such a difficult question to explain to him. It is the most heartbreaking thing."

A reward worth 100,000 Yuan or US$16,335 has been offered by the police in exchange of information that will lead to the arrest of the culprit, who they think is a woman.

The case drew an outburst of horror on social networking sites.

The illegal trade of organs is a blooming business in China, where, according to state media, the out of 300,000 people in need of transplants yearly, roughly 10,000 people only receives them because of shortage in donors.

State media reported in July accusations that the local branches of Chinese Red Cross had been involved in the illegitimate trade, which the organization denied.

China has been taken aback by a series of terrible cases emerging in the media, like the case of an 18-year old boy who sold one of his kidneys just to compensate an online gaming debt.

With the increasing number of such cases, the authorities should start formulating strategies to prevent these things from taking place again and ways to make people in their jurisdiction feel safe and secured.

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