The boy’s mother has revealed what happened before and after her “strong” and “amazing” nine-month-old was scalded with coffee by a stranger.
For the first time in days, a nine-month-old attacked in a Brisbane park has laughed and smiled, and even given a nurse a high-five.It’s a remarkable turnaround for the little boy, who on Tuesday was in a park with his mother when an unknown man approached, pouring a Thermos of scalding coffee onto him in what police believe to be a calculated attack.
“I was so happy and excited,” she recalled from the Queensland Children’s Hospital on Saturday morning. The man, described as about 30 to 40 years old, poured the hot liquid over the nine-month-old before fleeing. The mother said by the time they got the boy into a shower at the nearby home of a woman who came to help, paramedics had arrived.
“He was very, very wary of people the first few days. He didn’t want anyone touching him other than us, which is understandable.Her son had begun playing again, the mother said, and was due to see his older sister on Saturday. “He’s got to have surgeries every three or four days for the next three weeks or so, then after that, it’s like four months at least before the skin starts to change colour ... after that he has to have special creams and sunscreens.
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