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27/03/2008
Child's Sight At Risk After Attack
An innocent eight-year-old boy from Londonderry may lose sight in one eye after he was struck in the face with a glass bottle.
Ciaran Doherty was playing outside his Quarry Street home when the incident happened on 16 March.
Police have appealed for witnesses to the incident, which has only recently been reported, to contact them.
Ciaran's mother Ashleen said her son has already lost "part of his sight in the eye".
"We took him to the hospital straight after he came in and they told us to bring him back the next morning and the surgeon would stitch the eyelid," she said.
"But that's when they noticed the actual eyeball was cut from the top right down to the bottom and he got 12 stitches."
(BMcC)
Ciaran Doherty was playing outside his Quarry Street home when the incident happened on 16 March.
Police have appealed for witnesses to the incident, which has only recently been reported, to contact them.
Ciaran's mother Ashleen said her son has already lost "part of his sight in the eye".
"We took him to the hospital straight after he came in and they told us to bring him back the next morning and the surgeon would stitch the eyelid," she said.
"But that's when they noticed the actual eyeball was cut from the top right down to the bottom and he got 12 stitches."
(BMcC)
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