Boy who had eyes gouged out keeps asking family “why is it always dark?”

The six-year-old boy left blind after his eyes were gouged out keeps asking his family “why is it dark?”
The boy, known only by his surname Guo, is receiving treatment in China after being found covered in blood in the street.
Guo, who will never see again, was first thought to have been the victim of organ traffickers wanting to sell his corneas.
But his eyeballs were found nearby – and police confirmed the corneas were intact.
Police are now trying to discover a motive for the sickening attack in Fenzi, in the northern province of Shanxi.

The boy’s uncle said today: “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.”
He was then drugged and lost consciousness before the attacker removed his eyes, China Central TV told viewers.
Footage 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 victim’s father said: “We didn’t notice his eyes were gone when we ­discovered him. We thought he had fallen down from high and smashed his face.
“He had blood all over his face. His eyelids were turned inside out. And inside, his eyeballs were not there.”
Police have offered a £10,000, reward for information leading to an arrest of the lone suspect.
The attack has caused outrage across China, with one user of Sina Weibo, the country’s version of Twitter, writing: “This is ­extraordinarily vicious.
"How and why could someone be so cruel?”