A three-year-old boy snatched from his playmates before his eyes were cruelly gouged out encountered a man with a rod and a torch according to his recollection of moments leading to the torturous ordeal.
Sagini Junior described his attacker, albeit with scanty details, as detectives stepped up efforts to identify the mysterious man as doctors attending to the minor discharged him on Sunday.
Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations interviewed Sagini’s close family members in the preliminary stages of the probe.
The boy who was said to be playing with other children outside his grandmother’s house was reportedly snatched by the assailant at 6pm.
His grandmother was inside the house while none his parents who had separated were present.
The faint recollection of his attacker complicates a search for the individua behind the heinous crime even as doctors told the press that nothing could be done to restore Sagini’s eyesight.
“Nothing under the sun will bring his eyesight,” a doctor at Kisii Eye Hospital said.
“Unfortunately, since all the eyes were gouged, there is really nothing under the sun that can make this child see again, no technology or knowledge that can make this child see again,” Dr. Dan Kiage explained.
He said the boy underwent a lot of trauma explaining why he had disjointed information without even remembering the attacker’s name.
Sagini was playing with other children in their home in Marani subcounty within Kisii when an unknown man abducted. He was later found at a grass plantation.
“The eyes were removed using a sharp object like a knife, the first thing we did was to stop the bleeding and infections from getting in the eye sockets,” said Dr. Kiage.
Kisii Governor Simba Arati who cleared baby Sagini’s bill said his office will provide a safe place for the baby and her elder sister.
Arati also committed to mobilize a supplementary budget to help construct a rescue center for violence victims.
