Crazy World: Tortured 3-year-old eats own hair
Boy was just hours away from death when he was rescued from home
The three-year-old's mother and stepfather were put behind bars for ill-treating their child and keeping him locked in a bare room, reports Daily Mail.The boy was starving and dehydrated and barely alive when he was rescued by a police officer. A social worker had had received a tip-off and passed on the information to the authorities.
Once the boy was given food to eat, a doctor told the daily that he was eating as if he had 'never eaten before'.
EVen the police officer who rescued the baby was moved to tears after seeing the boy's condition. The doctors told the court later that the boy was rescued in the nick of time as he was just 'hours away from death'.
When the neglected child was rescued he was covered in faeces and was unclothed in a dark room where the radiator was switched off, while it was snowing outside.
The boy has recovered from his ordeal and has been placed with a foster family.
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