STRANGE BUT TRUE: THE STORY OF A 6-YEAR-OLD BOY WITH A TURTLE-LIKE BIRTHMARK!

 A young lad branded 'turtle boy' who had a huge-shell like growth on his body is finally free of the birthmark with the help of a British Surgeon.

Little Diddier Montalvo suffered from Congenital Melanocytic Nevus, which meant a mole grew so large that it almost covered his entire back.

The 6-year-old from Colombia was teased and banned from going to school because of the growth.

Locals in his village feared that he had been cursed by evil forces because he was conceived during an eclipse. Also, his mom, Luz, could not afford to pay for surgery to help rid her son of the birthmark blighting his life.

However, when plastic Surgeon Neil Bulstrode, from Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, heard about the boy's plight, he and his team flew to Bogotá to operate on him.

They eventually managed to remove the mole with a series of skin graft.

Source: BBC

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