In Bangledesh, four men had surrounded the 7-year-old boy, bound his hands and feet and cracked open his head with a brick. They held him down and took a switchblade to his throat. They sliced his chest and belly in an upside down cross.
And in a final brutal act, they hacked him sideways, chopping off his penis and his right testicle. "It's amazing that he lived," a doctor said after working on this 7 year old boy. "I'm really surprised he didn't bleed to death prior to getting to the hospital."
Okkhoy says he set off for home when a group of neighborhood men grabbed him and pulled him into an alley."They tied me up and told me they'd force me to beg," he says. "I told them, 'I know each and every one of you. And I'm going to tell my father.'"
That's when one of the men grabbed a brick and struck him across the head, he says.
The attackers left Okkhoy by the side of a warehouse, intending to come back later and dump him in the river.
The attackers left Okkhoy by the side of a warehouse, intending to come back later and dump him in the river.
Okkhoy's case would have gone unnoticed were it not for his father's chance meeting with a human rights lawyer, Alena Khan.
When Abed went to the police to report the attack, he was told a case was already in the books.Someone who identified himself as the boy's uncle had told police that Okkhoy was assaulted by two boys in a playground spat that turned ugly
."Two little boys are capable of such brutality? And you believe that?" the incredulous father asked.
"Yes, now let us do our job," he was told and dismissed.
This is horrible. When we think our country is bad others
countries are doing far worst.
Why aren’t the cops taking it seriously and not doing a back
ground check on the so called uncle. what would it take to make this more
serious. Children are getting the bad end of the stick.
Dymond,
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