The factual, emotionless way the five-year old Godsway reports how he lost his eyes, dwarfs the fact that it was his mother who actually plugged them out.
“My mother broke blade and pierced my eyes with it several times” he reported his own trauma with a dryness of a professional journalist.
No gory detail. No painful recollection twitched on his face. No change in his body posture to signal that what he just revealed is one of the most traumatic stories of domestic abuse.
The news is nuclear. It erases any memory you have of how bad a mother can be. It left the audience sick in the stomach.
The 5-year old boy was pinned to the dust with adult force one Tuesday in Amasaman. He must have thought that as long as it was his mother and not a murderer, the worst he could get was a spanking.
Maybe a few lashes would drain the anger out of her.
He lied there supine, his gaze fixed on mother until a sharp object in a spilt second cut through the iris, spluttered blood over his eyes to announce a coming blindness.
A very unfamiliar rush of danger flushed through his body. This was not a spanking, he immediately realised. His tiny arms instinctively tired demonstrate his protest. But they were quickly finished off as her mother broke the arms in two.
And left Godsway with the only one defence – a feeble plea to a sick mother - stop, stop, stop.
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