An eight-month-old boy is lucky to be alive after he was stabbed 90 times mostly in the face by his mother, for biting her while she was breastfeeding.
Xiao Bao needed more than 100 stitches after the incident in Xuzhou, eastern China's Jiangsu Province.
The infant lives with his mother and two uncles. It was one of the uncles who discovered Xiao Bao lying in a pool of blood in the yard of their home and rushed him to hospital.
The child’s mother later confessed that she stabbed the baby after he bit her during breastfeeding.
The local government said that said, there is no confirmation that the mother is suffering from a mental illness.
Mental illness remains a relatively closed topic in modern China and according to an analysis it is estimated that 91 per cent of the 173million Chinese adults that were believed to suffer mental problems never receive professional help.
