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7-year-old girl takes joke too far, ‘circumcises’ a two-year-old boy

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children playing

An ‘I’ll-show-you-mine-if-you-show-me yours’ game turned tragic after a 7-year-old girl in Lumakanda, Lugari sub-County ‘circumcised’ a two-year-old boy using a dried piece of maize stalk.

The girl, while playing with the boy’s member, pushed the joke too far and injured him while administering a mock circumcision exercise.

The boy’s mother, Philly Zindoli said she had left her son under the care of a neighbour who often takes care of the boy when she is away at work.

“I am a waitress at Wheels cafe’ in Lumakanda. I do not have a house help and is hard going to work with the child. Most of the times my neighbour takes care of him,” Zindoli said.

While at work received a call requesting me to go home as soon as possible as my son had been seriously injured and was bleeding.

“I rushed home and found my son lying on the bed and bleeding. His private parts had been damaged. I had to rush him to hospital without enquiring what had happened as his life was at risk,” she said.

She was later informed that the two children were playing as usual. And during a game in which young children compare genitals, the young girl picked a dried piece of maize stalk, joked about circumcising the little boy and actually pushed the joke too far by doing so.

“Doctors at Lumakanda sub County hospital revealed that the boy had several cuts as the girl tried to chop off his genital organ by cutting it several times which led to major bleeding,” Zindoli said.

Zindoli said the boy is in good condition and there are no complications and she owes no blame to her neighbour and termed it an accident.

“Children have closed for more than two months for December holiday, they need to be monitored when playing to avoid further accidents in future as they cannot reason as grown-ups unless told what is wrong and right,” she said

 

 

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